On Sunday 12 December 2004 23:38, Bill Wisse wrote:
On Sunday 12 December 2004 12:21, Peter B Van Campen wrote:
Hi Folks,
There is a real bothersome bug in KDE on SUSE 9.2 and some earlier releases. Often I find that the highlighted line is 'flickering' or jiggling and therefore un selectable.
Example: lft click on the SUSE menu (Geeko's smiling head) and the menu top lvl pops up and instead of one and only one entry being highlighted there is a flickering highlighted line but when you try to pick a line via the mouse the highlighting jumps all over, always escaping the mouse cursor. Work-around: use the KB arrow keys (up or dn) and then one entry becomes properly highlighted. Now after that it will act correctly.
I often see this beheaviour in Konqi file mgr displays. There will be a flickering or quivering highlight on a line, but you cannot move it around with the mouse; move it with the KB arrow keys just once and it will stay correct for that window.
I see this on several machines and on 8.2, 9.1, and 9.2 These PCs have nvidia cards, and some have the nvidia 3D drivers running and some are not.
Have any of you seen this odd bug? I have reported it via 'feedback' two times now, but as you know we rarely ever get any answer back.
I have a lot of problems with KDE on my 9.2 box. In the last week or so I had to hard restart the computer six or seven times. Kde completely froze. ( Cntr/Alt/Del) didn't work. Also at times after I start up and put in a password for Kmail the box goes full of asterix and the only way out is (hard) restart.
Without wanting to be Mr Picky, Asterix is the Gaul with the horned helmet and the group of Gallic chums with names like Obelix, etc. What you get when you do Shift-8 is an asterisk. Be quite fun if your dialogue boxes really did fill up with Gauls, I suppose ... and you might get Romans in alternate ones.
I've seen the behavior you mentioned as well.
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