[opensuse] dashed lines and dotted lines
Hello, again-- I'm new to SuSE 11.1, and a lot of things have changed since 9.3. Fr'instance, all of a sudden I have dotted lines around a lot of the things I bring up on screen, including now, and dashed lines around each incoming mail (in KMail) and dashed lines around some icons on the desktop. Why did they appear, and how can I get rid of them? They make the mail topics hard to read, for one thing. (This letter, as I write it, has dotted edges as noted above.) This did not manifest itself until I had used the program about 5 days. --doug -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
On 19/02/10 04:05, Douglas McGarrett wrote:
Hello, again--
I'm new to SuSE 11.1, and a lot of things have changed since 9.3. Fr'instance, all of a sudden I have dotted lines around a lot of the things I bring up on screen, including now, and dashed lines around each incoming mail (in KMail) and dashed lines around some icons on the desktop. Why did they appear, and how can I get rid of them? They make the mail topics hard to read, for one thing. (This letter, as I write it, has dotted edges as noted above.) This did not manifest itself until I had used the program about 5 days. --doug
Doug, I don't understand what you mean by what you describe - could you send a screenshot? Is it a hardware display issue or a software issue? Are you running KDE3 or KDE4? Regards, Tejas Just FYI, openSUSE 11.2 is the current release, 11.1 is now getting quite old. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
On Friday 19 February 2010 05:16:41 am Tejas Guruswamy wrote:
On 19/02/10 04:05, Douglas McGarrett wrote:
Hello, again--
I'm new to SuSE 11.1, and a lot of things have changed since 9.3. Fr'instance, all of a sudden I have dotted lines around a lot of the things I bring up on screen, including now, and dashed lines around each incoming mail (in KMail) and dashed lines around some icons on the desktop. Why did they appear, and how can I get rid of them? They make the mail topics hard to read, for one thing. (This letter, as I write it, has dotted edges as noted above.) This did not manifest itself until I had used the program about 5 days. --doug
Doug, I don't understand what you mean by what you describe - could you send a screenshot? Is it a hardware display issue or a software issue?
Are you running KDE3 or KDE4?
Regards, Tejas
I'm running KDE 3.5. I can't seem to get the dashed lines and the dots on screen at the same time. The dashes surround the subject of the incoming mail, and the dots surround this outgoing mail. The screen shot is of this reply. Note the dots all around the periphery. Dashes also surround a selected icon, but they don't seem to be active when the outgoing mail is active. --doug -- Blessed are the peacemakers...for they shall be shot at from both sides. --A. M. Greeley
On Friday 19 February 2010 05:16:41 am Tejas Guruswamy wrote:
On 19/02/10 04:05, Douglas McGarrett wrote:
Hello, again--
I'm new to SuSE 11.1, and a lot of things have changed since 9.3. Fr'instance, all of a sudden I have dotted lines around a lot of the things I bring up on screen, including now, and dashed lines around each incoming mail (in KMail) and dashed lines around some icons on the desktop. Why did they appear, and how can I get rid of them? They make the mail topics hard to read, for one thing. (This letter, as I write it, has dotted edges as noted above.) This did not manifest itself until I had used the program about 5 days. --doug
Doug, I don't understand what you mean by what you describe - could you send a screenshot? Is it a hardware display issue or a software issue?
Are you running KDE3 or KDE4?
Regards, Tejas
Just FYI, openSUSE 11.2 is the current release, 11.1 is now getting quite old.
Here's an example of the dashes. -- Blessed are the peacemakers...for they shall be shot at from both sides. --A. M. Greeley
On Fri, 2010-02-19 at 19:36 -0500, Doug McGarrett wrote:
On Friday 19 February 2010 05:16:41 am Tejas Guruswamy wrote:
On 19/02/10 04:05, Douglas McGarrett wrote:
Hello, again--
I'm new to SuSE 11.1, and a lot of things have changed since 9.3. Fr'instance, all of a sudden I have dotted lines around a lot of the things I bring up on screen, including now, and dashed lines around each incoming mail (in KMail) and dashed lines around some icons on the desktop. Why did they appear, and how can I get rid of them? They make the mail topics hard to read, for one thing. (This letter, as I write it, has dotted edges as noted above.) This did not manifest itself until I had used the program about 5 days. --doug
Doug, I don't understand what you mean by what you describe - could you send a screenshot? Is it a hardware display issue or a software issue?
Are you running KDE3 or KDE4?
Regards, Tejas
Just FYI, openSUSE 11.2 is the current release, 11.1 is now getting quite old.
Here's an example of the dashes.
It looks to me like your color depth is odd. How many colors do you have enabled? It looks like 16. And KDE is still trying to do 3D effects. If anything, I bet KDE is doing good things in an apparent lack of colors. xdpyinfo should print something like this: screen #0: print screen: no dimensions: 1920x1200 pixels (372x231 millimeters) resolution: 131x132 dots per inch depths (7): 24, 1, 4, 8, 15, 16, 32 root window id: 0x1a7 depth of root window: 24 planes number of colormaps: minimum 1, maximum 1 default colormap: 0x20 default number of colormap cells: 256 preallocated pixels: black 0, white 16777215 options: backing-store NO, save-unders NO largest cursor: 64x64 current input event mask: 0xfac031 KeyPressMask EnterWindowMask LeaveWindowMask KeymapStateMask ExposureMask StructureNotifyMask SubstructureNotifyMask SubstructureRedirectMask FocusChangeMask PropertyChangeMask ColormapChangeMask number of visuals: 120 default visual id: 0x21 visual: visual id: 0x21 class: TrueColor depth: 24 planes available colormap entries: 256 per subfield red, green, blue masks: 0xff0000, 0xff00, 0xff significant bits in color specification: 8 bits -- You can't just ask customers what they want and then try to give that to them. By the time you get it built, they'll want something new. -- Steve Jobs Roger Oberholtzer Ramböll RST/OPQ Ramböll Sverige AB Krukmakargatan 21 P.O. Box 17009 SE-104 62 Stockholm, Sweden Office: Int +46 8-615 60 20 Mobile: Int +46 70-815 1696 -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
On Friday 19 February 2010 02:48:30 pm Roger Oberholtzer wrote:
On Fri, 2010-02-19 at 19:36 -0500, Doug McGarrett wrote:
On Friday 19 February 2010 05:16:41 am Tejas Guruswamy wrote:
On 19/02/10 04:05, Douglas McGarrett wrote:
Hello, again--
I'm new to SuSE 11.1, and a lot of things have changed since 9.3. Fr'instance, all of a sudden I have dotted lines around a lot of the things I bring up on screen, including now, and dashed lines around each incoming mail (in KMail) and dashed lines around some icons on the desktop. Why did they appear, and how can I get rid of them? They make the mail topics hard to read, for one thing. (This letter, as I write it, has dotted edges as noted above.) This did not manifest itself until I had used the program about 5 days. --doug
Doug, I don't understand what you mean by what you describe - could you send a screenshot? Is it a hardware display issue or a software issue?
Are you running KDE3 or KDE4?
Regards, Tejas
Just FYI, openSUSE 11.2 is the current release, 11.1 is now getting quite old.
Here's an example of the dashes.
It looks to me like your color depth is odd. How many colors do you have enabled? It looks like 16. And KDE is still trying to do 3D effects. If anything, I bet KDE is doing good things in an apparent lack of colors.
xdpyinfo should print something like this:
screen #0: print screen: no dimensions: 1920x1200 pixels (372x231 millimeters) resolution: 131x132 dots per inch depths (7): 24, 1, 4, 8, 15, 16, 32 root window id: 0x1a7 0x6d depth of root window: 24 planes number of colormaps: minimum 1, maximum 1 default colormap: 0x20 default number of colormap cells: 256 preallocated pixels: black 0, white 16777215 options: backing-store NO, save-unders NO largest cursor: 64x64 current input event mask: 0xfac031 0xfa4031 <<< KeyPressMask EnterWindowMask LeaveWindowMask KeymapStateMask ExposureMask StructureNotifyMask SubstructureNotifyMask SubstructureRedirectMask FocusChangeMask PropertyChangeMask ColormapChangeMask number of visuals: 120 2 <<< default visual id: 0x21 visual: visual id: 0x21 0x4b <<< class: TrueColor depth: 24 planes 32 planes <<< available colormap entries: 256 per subfield red, green, blue masks: 0xff0000, 0xff00, 0xff significant bits in color specification: 8 bits
The above tabbed entries are different in my readout. Does this mean anything? most of it means nothing to me. --doug -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
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