Hi to all, I have a problem with my screen. I use KDE as my GUI and the windows appear with a shadow in all the screen. What i mean by a shadow is like several lines (more like shadows) which appear in the horizontal direction and appear in the windows edges. There are also other shadows which appear in each line of text that i am writing. When i move the window the shadows follow it . Perhaps this is a X server problem, or it might be a hardware problem (monitor or graphics card). I have plugged the monitor in another computer and the shadows did not appeared, so i presume this is not a monitor problem. I have run the X wizard to reconfigure the X but it remained the same. Is this a graphics card problem ? I do i trace the problem ? Thanks to all in advance. P.S: sorry about my english
I have a problem with my screen. I use KDE as my GUI and the windows appear with a shadow in all the screen.
Control Panel > Appearance & Themes > Window Decorations There's a checkbox at the bottom named "Draw a drop shadow under windows". Make sure this is turned off. It's interesting eye candy, but not developed well enough for regular use yet. Joe -- ftb-conman.sourceforge.net - The Future of Website Content Management Amerikanska.com - Americans In Sweden Firechild.net - My Hell On The Web
This feature is turned off. I think this is not a look configuration but it might be horizontal frequency syncronization. But unfortunately the monitor is weel configured in the X server. More ideas ? :-) Joe Sullivan wrote:
I have a problem with my screen. I use KDE as my GUI and the windows appear with a shadow in all the screen.
Control Panel > Appearance & Themes > Window Decorations
There's a checkbox at the bottom named "Draw a drop shadow under windows". Make sure this is turned off.
It's interesting eye candy, but not developed well enough for regular use yet.
Joe
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** Reply to message from João Reis <joao.reis@2000comp.pt> on Tue, 30 Dec 2003 12:53:02 +0000
This feature is turned off. I think this is not a look configuration but it might be horizontal frequency synchronization. But unfortunately the monitor is well configured in the X server.
More ideas ?
Sounds like an unshielded vga cable. Are you using the one that came with it? Have you added other electronic equipment in close proximity to the monitor? Triple shielded vga extension cables are available at cablesnmor.com for about $10US. Replacing the cable cured my problems with shadowy text. Ed Harrison SuSE 9.0, Kernel 2.4.21-99 PolarBar Mailer 1.25a
But connecting the same monitor with the same cable in another computer all goes well ..... Ed Harrison wrote:
** Reply to message from João Reis <joao.reis@2000comp.pt> on Tue, 30 Dec 2003 12:53:02 +0000
This feature is turned off. I think this is not a look configuration but it might be horizontal frequency synchronization. But unfortunately the monitor is well configured in the X server.
More ideas ?
Sounds like an unshielded vga cable. Are you using the one that came with it? Have you added other electronic equipment in close proximity to the monitor?
Triple shielded vga extension cables are available at cablesnmor.com for about $10US.
Replacing the cable cured my problems with shadowy text.
Ed Harrison SuSE 9.0, Kernel 2.4.21-99 PolarBar Mailer 1.25a
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João Reis <joao.reis@2000comp.pt> writes:
I have a problem with my screen. I use KDE as my GUI and the windows appear with a shadow in all the screen.
Some video drivers in XFree86 may be problematic. Check e.g. http://www.xfree86.org/4.3.0/RELNOTES3.html. You may try to decrease the frequency, resolution, ... and write a bug report. But the easiest way is to buy a graphics adapter which is known to work OK. (Well, this is not applicable to notebooks.) -- A.M.
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