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kriga

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Registered: 2005-04-04

Posts: 27

Icons in X windows are messed up

Hallo alltogether,

I've updated my X.org to 6.8.2 an now I've the problem the my Icons under X windows are messed up. Just an example:

When I'm using Thunderbird and than I try to move a message from the Inbox to an another folder while dragging on the message a small icon appears looking like a small piece of paper. The PROBLEM is that the space AROUND this small Icon, which is normaly transparent, is full of randomly colorized pixels.

Here I've made a small screen shot of such an icon:

http://www.kriga.net/badicon.jpg

I've tried to solve this problem by downgrading to X.org 6.8.1 but it didn't help (It seems that this problem doesn't depend on X.org...). Does anybody has a suggestion how to solve this problem, cause this icons are looking really bad :-(

Thank you!

droog

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Registered: 2004-11-18

Posts: 877

Re: Icons in X windows are messed up

Upgrading your gtk2 should fix it. a new version just came out yesterday i think that fixes this.

kriga

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Registered: 2005-04-04

Posts: 27

Re: Icons in X windows are messed up

Upgrading your gtk2 should fix it. a new version just came out yesterday i think that fixes this.

No, unfortunently this doesn't work! I'v already have the newest gtk2 package installed (pacman -Qi gtk2):
...
Name           : gtk2
Version        : 2.6.7-1
...

Is ist possible, that an another package could be responseable for this problem? I'v already tried to downgrade gtk2 to the version 2.6.1 but the problem remains :-(

phrakture

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Registered: 2003-10-29

Posts: 7,879

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Re: Icons in X windows are messed up

make sure to load "extmod" in your xorg.conf - extmod contains the "XShape" extension, which is required to render non-square windows (like icons)

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droog

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Registered: 2004-11-18

Posts: 877

Re: Icons in X windows are messed up

You changed the pic in your link, the one i saw was the default one gtk uses when it fails to load the correct one. the one that looks like a piece of paper. i was having problems with those in gtk2 apps too and it was fixed when i upgraded,  anyways hope you get it working right.

kriga

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Registered: 2005-04-04

Posts: 27

Re: Icons in X windows are messed up

make sure to load "extmod" in your xorg.conf - extmod contains the "XShape" extension, which is required to render non-square windows (like icons)

It works! :shock:

Phrakture and droog thank you very much for your help. I hadn't *never* solved this problem alone!