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snorkel

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Registered: 2004-02-11

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KDE 4.2 tray icons driving me nuts......

Man,
the tray icon corruption in kde 4.2 is making me crazy :-)

Is it possible to upgrade QT to 4.5(RC) ?
Or is there some other work around to this annoying bug?

dyscoria

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Registered: 2008-01-10

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Re: KDE 4.2 tray icons driving me nuts......

4.5(RC) is not recommended for use with kde4.2 at the moment (from Aaron Seigo's blog). Will generally break alot of things.

I have the same problem and AFAIK there isn't a proper fix yet.

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Registered: 2008-11-13

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Re: KDE 4.2 tray icons driving me nuts......

4.5(RC) is not recommended for use with kde4.2 at the moment (from Aaron Seigo's blog). Will generally break alot of things.

I have the same problem and AFAIK there isn't a proper fix yet.

I tested Kdemod 4.2 packages (from kdemod-testing repo) compilated with QT 4.5 and works fine.

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lucke

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From: Poland

Registered: 2004-11-30

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Re: KDE 4.2 tray icons driving me nuts......

I haven't experienced any systray icon corruption, with neither Qt 4.4 nor 4.5 (nvidia). Qt 4.5 allegedly breaks only some plasma applets (I'm using it without any problems), so you might try updating to it. There's a PKGBUILD in one of the topics.

snorkel

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Registered: 2004-02-11

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Re: KDE 4.2 tray icons driving me nuts......

I haven't experienced any systray icon corruption, with neither Qt 4.4 nor 4.5 (nvidia). Qt 4.5 allegedly breaks only some plasma applets (I'm using it without any problems), so you might try updating to it. There's a PKGBUILD in one of the topics.

for 64bit?

whompus

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From: Durham. UK

Registered: 2005-08-09

Posts: 256

Re: KDE 4.2 tray icons driving me nuts......

I'm using 64bit with no corruption using the intel driver, what card are you using as i think there can be problems with some settings in xorg.conf

lucke

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From: Poland

Registered: 2004-11-30

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Re: KDE 4.2 tray icons driving me nuts......

Here's the PKGBUILD, I'm on i686, but it should work on x86_64.

Rasi

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From: Germany

Registered: 2007-08-14

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Re: KDE 4.2 tray icons driving me nuts......

4.5 also gives some speed increasments...

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snorkel

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Registered: 2004-02-11

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Re: KDE 4.2 tray icons driving me nuts......

I'm using 64bit with no corruption using the intel driver, what card are you using as i think there can be problems with some settings in xorg.conf

I am using a Geforce 8600 GT with the 180.22 driver.

mrunion

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Registered: 2007-01-26

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Re: KDE 4.2 tray icons driving me nuts......

I experience the corruption -- nVidia 8600, Arch64, etc. But I'm not freakin' out about it.

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OutOfReach

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Registered: 2008-10-28

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Re: KDE 4.2 tray icons driving me nuts......

Small world, I too have a 8600 GT. Icon corruption is there but doesn't really bother me. AFAIK it is a very common problem and has to do with Qt, not a specific graphic driver or KDE.

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celettu

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Registered: 2007-12-01

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Re: KDE 4.2 tray icons driving me nuts......

Same here...nvidia 8600GT, and corrupted icons. I fussed about it a bit, but in the end, it's not that big a deal.

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wsduvall

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Re: KDE 4.2 tray icons driving me nuts......

Thats not entierly true in my case. If I comment out  the line:

Option "MigrationHeuristic" "greedy"

In my xorg.conf, the problem is fixed. However... my graphics go out the window.

Anyway, its being really buggy, so I'm going to switch back to GNOME...

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snorkel

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Registered: 2004-02-11

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Re: KDE 4.2 tray icons driving me nuts......

Here's the PKGBUILD, I'm on i686, but it should work on x86_64.

Didn't work on x86_64, it died when it tried to compile the ODBC.  I tried removing the references to UnixODBC in the package but it still crapped out.

snorkel

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Registered: 2004-02-11

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Re: KDE 4.2 tray icons driving me nuts......

Thats not entierly true in my case. If I comment out  the line:

Option "MigrationHeuristic" "greedy"

In my xorg.conf, the problem is fixed. However... my graphics go out the window.

Anyway, its being really buggy, so I'm going to switch back to GNOME...

I don't have that in my xorg.conf file and still see the corruption.  The corruption is not a huge deal, but
at time it gets so bad you can't even tell what is in the tray.

schuay

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From: Austria

Registered: 2008-08-19

Posts: 564

Re: KDE 4.2 tray icons driving me nuts......

using nvidia 8800 ultra , i also had tray corruption.

using the pkgbuild from this thread http://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=64750 solved it for me (on x86_64).

kdm doesn't work using the new qt, but tray corruption is gone.

snorkel

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Registered: 2004-02-11

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Re: KDE 4.2 tray icons driving me nuts......

using nvidia 8800 ultra , i also had tray corruption.

using the pkgbuild from this thread http://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=64750 solved it for me (on x86_64).

kdm doesn't work using the new qt, but tray corruption is gone.

I tried building that package for my system (x86_64) but it always bombs out on the UnixODBC part.

Did you modify the pkgbuild at all to get it to work?

schuay

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From: Austria

Registered: 2008-08-19

Posts: 564

Re: KDE 4.2 tray icons driving me nuts......

using nvidia 8800 ultra , i also had tray corruption.

using the pkgbuild from this thread http://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=64750 solved it for me (on x86_64).

kdm doesn't work using the new qt, but tray corruption is gone.

I tried building that package for my system (x86_64) but it always bombs out on the UnixODBC part.

Did you modify the pkgbuild at all to get it to work?

No it built fine without modification.

Slack

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From: Chile

Registered: 2008-10-27

Posts: 52

Re: KDE 4.2 tray icons driving me nuts......

Thats not entierly true in my case. If I comment out  the line:

Option "MigrationHeuristic" "greedy"

In my xorg.conf, the problem is fixed. However... my graphics go out the window.

Anyway, its being really buggy, so I'm going to switch back to GNOME...

thanks, that works for me

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eric

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Registered: 2004-02-11

Posts: 117

Re: KDE 4.2 tray icons driving me nuts......

kdm doesn't work using the new qt, but tray corruption is gone.

The kdm crash is fixed:
http://websvn.kde.org:80/?view=rev&sort … ion=922803
You can apply those patches and recompile kdebase-workspace.

It may also help to recompile qt-4.5 using the latest daily snapshot instead of the rc1 version:
ftp://ftp.trolltech.com/qt/snapshots .