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Cinder

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Registered: 2008-08-17

Posts: 30

[Solved] Visual glitches with tray icons on KDE 4.1

Hello,

I've been experiencing some visual glitches with KDE 4.1 since I installed it pretty much. I'm using the nvidia driver and have been updating it regularly.

With the most recent update (180.22-1) my X server would not even start. It was crashing at the splash screen after login. I followed the guides in http://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=63270 to revert back back to 177.82.

The X server is booting now and everything appears to be back in order, except for the deteriorated gfx glitches on the tray icons. Most of them are now displayed as green squares:

http://img520.imageshack.us/img520/1033/screen1jo0.jpg

The green boxes are the volume icon, pidgin, skype, xchat and the text (en/bg layouts) on the kbd layout switch icon is show as green rectangles as well.

The device section of my xorg.conf:

Section "Device"

    Identifier     "nVidia"
    Driver         "nvidia"
    Option "RenderAccel" "True"
    Option "TripleBuffer" "True"
    Option "BackingStore" "True"
    Option "UseEvents" "false"
    Option "DamageEvents" "True"
    Option "OnDemandVblankInterrupts" "True"
    Option "RegistryDwords" "PowerMizerLevelAC=0x3"
    Option "RegistryDwords" "PowerMizerLevel=0x3"
    Option "PixmapCacheSize" "20000000"
    Option "AddARGBGLXVisuals" "True"

I've been doing some googling, looking for a fix, but haven't been able to find any

Last edited by Cinder (2009-01-21 14:11:16)

hash

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From: Poland

Registered: 2008-07-31

Posts: 111

Re: [Solved] Visual glitches with tray icons on KDE 4.1

Remove

    Option "BackingStore" "True"

from your device section in xorg.conf or set it to False

Last edited by hash (2009-01-20 18:56:29)

Cinder

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Registered: 2008-08-17

Posts: 30

Re: [Solved] Visual glitches with tray icons on KDE 4.1

That seems to have fixed it, thanks