[gentoo-user] Mystery square under KDE

[gentoo-user] Mystery square under KDE

[Andrew Lowe]

Hi all,
	I've got KDE set up in a twin head configuration with the menu/task 
manager thingy set for autohide on the top edge of the LHS monitor. When 
I move the mouse up to the top of the screen to display the task 
manager/kicker, as well as the menu displaying, I also get a large 
translucent rectangle showing. The task manager shows and it is of the 
depth you would expect, the height of a character plus appropriate 
padding, but as well as this I get this translucent rectangle showing 
which is about 2/3 screen depth and 2/3 screen width in size. This is 
displayed as long as the task manager is displayed - move the mouse away 
from the task manager and the task manager disappears, and so does the 
mystery rectangle, move the mouse back to display the task manager and 
the rectangle comes back.

There is a screen grab here www.wht.com.au/dodgyMenu.png. Has anyone any 
thoughts on how to get rid of the mystery rectangle?

	Any thoughts greatly appreciated,

		Andrew

Re: [gentoo-user] Mystery square under KDE

[Sebastian Beßler]

Am 06.11.2010 05:38, schrieb Andrew Lowe:
> Hi all,
>     I've got KDE set up in a twin head configuration with the menu/task

Are both heads running at the same resolution or is the second smaller?
Whenever I tried to setup a dualhead-setup (xaphod-style not a big
screen with xrender) I had a similar problem when the second screen was
smaller then the main-screen.

Looks much like a bug to me.
Could you give more information about your twin head configuration?

Greetings

Sebastian Beßler

Re: [gentoo-user] Mystery square under KDE

[Mark Knecht]

On Fri, Nov 5, 2010 at 9:38 PM, Andrew Lowe <agl@wht.com.au> wrote:
> Hi all,
>        I've got KDE set up in a twin head configuration with the menu/task
> manager thingy set for autohide on the top edge of the LHS monitor. When I
> move the mouse up to the top of the screen to display the task
> manager/kicker, as well as the menu displaying, I also get a large
> translucent rectangle showing. The task manager shows and it is of the depth
> you would expect, the height of a character plus appropriate padding, but as
> well as this I get this translucent rectangle showing which is about 2/3
> screen depth and 2/3 screen width in size. This is displayed as long as the
> task manager is displayed - move the mouse away from the task manager and
> the task manager disappears, and so does the mystery rectangle, move the
> mouse back to display the task manager and the rectangle comes back.
>
> There is a screen grab here www.wht.com.au/dodgyMenu.png. Has anyone any
> thoughts on how to get rid of the mystery rectangle?
>
>        Any thoughts greatly appreciated,
>
>                Andrew

I have a machine with an ATI 5770 in it. It does a few things like
this with the default KDE theme. It does fewer things with other
themes. (It's not perfect with any theme!)

Try another theme?

- Mark

Re: [gentoo-user] Mystery square under KDE

[John Campbell]

On 11/05/2010 09:38 PM, Andrew Lowe wrote:
> Hi all,
>     I've got KDE set up in a twin head configuration with the menu/task
> manager thingy set for autohide on the top edge of the LHS monitor. When
> I move the mouse up to the top of the screen to display the task
> manager/kicker, as well as the menu displaying, I also get a large
> translucent rectangle showing. The task manager shows and it is of the
> depth you would expect, the height of a character plus appropriate
> padding, but as well as this I get this translucent rectangle showing
> which is about 2/3 screen depth and 2/3 screen width in size. This is
> displayed as long as the task manager is displayed - move the mouse away
> from the task manager and the task manager disappears, and so does the
> mystery rectangle, move the mouse back to display the task manager and
> the rectangle comes back.

I seem to remember that rectangle.  It went away when I switched to
"Folder View" and created a Desktop folder like I had in KDE3.

Re: [gentoo-user] Mystery square under KDE

[ich bins]

Am 06.11.2010 13:48, schrieb Mark Knecht:
> On Fri, Nov 5, 2010 at 9:38 PM, Andrew Lowe <agl@wht.com.au> wrote:
>> Hi all,
>>        I've got KDE set up in a twin head configuration with the menu/task
>> manager thingy set for autohide on the top edge of the LHS monitor. When I
>> move the mouse up to the top of the screen to display the task
>> manager/kicker, as well as the menu displaying, I also get a large
>> translucent rectangle showing. The task manager shows and it is of the depth
>> you would expect, the height of a character plus appropriate padding, but as
>> well as this I get this translucent rectangle showing which is about 2/3
>> screen depth and 2/3 screen width in size. This is displayed as long as the
>> task manager is displayed - move the mouse away from the task manager and
>> the task manager disappears, and so does the mystery rectangle, move the
>> mouse back to display the task manager and the rectangle comes back.
>>
>> There is a screen grab here www.wht.com.au/dodgyMenu.png. Has anyone any
>> thoughts on how to get rid of the mystery rectangle?
>>
>>        Any thoughts greatly appreciated,
>>
>>                Andrew
> 
> I have a machine with an ATI 5770 in it. It does a few things like
> this with the default KDE theme. It does fewer things with other
> themes. (It's not perfect with any theme!)
> 
> Try another theme?
> 
> - Mark
> 
> 
Which version ati-drivers you use? Im using ati-drivers-10.10 without
any Problems with a HD5750 and 3 Screens

Re: [gentoo-user] Mystery square under KDE [SOLVED]

[Andrew Lowe]

On 11/07/10 14:10, John Campbell wrote:
> On 11/05/2010 09:38 PM, Andrew Lowe wrote:
>> Hi all,
>>      I've got KDE set up in a twin head configuration with the menu/task
>> manager thingy set for autohide on the top edge of the LHS monitor. When
>> I move the mouse up to the top of the screen to display the task
>> manager/kicker, as well as the menu displaying, I also get a large
>> translucent rectangle showing. The task manager shows and it is of the
>> depth you would expect, the height of a character plus appropriate
>> padding, but as well as this I get this translucent rectangle showing
>> which is about 2/3 screen depth and 2/3 screen width in size. This is
>> displayed as long as the task manager is displayed - move the mouse away
>> from the task manager and the task manager disappears, and so does the
>> mystery rectangle, move the mouse back to display the task manager and
>> the rectangle comes back.
>
> I seem to remember that rectangle.  It went away when I switched to
> "Folder View" and created a Desktop folder like I had in KDE3.
>
>

	Well, I did an "emerge -NuD world" over the weekend, which showed that 
my machie is dying - compiler segfaults all over the place but that's 
another story, and the square is now gone. Looks like it was a 
code/config bug in the version of KDE I was running!!!!

	Regards,
		Andrew

Re: [gentoo-user] Mystery square under KDE [SOLVED]

[Andrew Lowe]

On 11/08/10 09:27, Andrew Lowe wrote:
> On 11/07/10 14:10, John Campbell wrote:
>> On 11/05/2010 09:38 PM, Andrew Lowe wrote:
>>> Hi all,
>>> I've got KDE set up in a twin head configuration with the menu/task
>>> manager thingy set for autohide on the top edge of the LHS monitor. When
>>> I move the mouse up to the top of the screen to display the task
>>> manager/kicker, as well as the menu displaying, I also get a large
>>> translucent rectangle showing. The task manager shows and it is of the
>>> depth you would expect, the height of a character plus appropriate
>>> padding, but as well as this I get this translucent rectangle showing
>>> which is about 2/3 screen depth and 2/3 screen width in size. This is
>>> displayed as long as the task manager is displayed - move the mouse away
>>> from the task manager and the task manager disappears, and so does the
>>> mystery rectangle, move the mouse back to display the task manager and
>>> the rectangle comes back.
>>
>> I seem to remember that rectangle. It went away when I switched to
>> "Folder View" and created a Desktop folder like I had in KDE3.
>>
>>
>
> Well, I did an "emerge -NuD world" over the weekend, which showed that
> my machie is dying - compiler segfaults all over the place but that's
> another story, and the square is now gone. Looks like it was a
> code/config bug in the version of KDE I was running!!!!
>
> Regards,
> Andrew
>
>
Well it came back again, didn't it. And now it's gone again. It appears 
that I had in the past managed to expand a task bar widget thingy, I 
think the task manager, and just now whilst stuffing around, happened to 
notice it and rectify it.

	Andrew