Graphic display window interaction/corruption

[Philip Balister]

Does it look like this:

http://www.balister.org/~balister/bad_screen.png

What kind of graphics card do you have?

Philip

On Mon, Nov 17, 2003 at 03:36:49AM +0000, Mike Klinke wrote:
> Has anyone else noticed an interaction between display windows?  If I 
> have only a kmail window open and look at the toolbar/pull-down menu  
> area at the top of the screen it looks clean and clear as it should.  
> 
> However,  if I start up mozilla, it seems there's an interaction of the 
> graphics windows and all of a sudden the top of the kmail window has a 
> bunch of vertical streaks in the toolbar/pull-down menu and a couple of 
> other areas.
> 
> If I close down mozilla, minimize kmail, and then expand kmail again the 
> vertical streaks go away until I start mozilla again.  This will become 
> more or less objectionable depending on color scheme of the web site 
> you're viewing with mozilla.
> 
> I don't know whether to attribute this bug to mozilla, kde, X, or ? and 
> a quick search of bugzilla didn't bring up anything on the search terms 
> I used.  This seems to happen between a console window and mozilla too,  
> i.e. it's not specific to kmail but does seem specific to mozilla.
> 
> This isn't only on Fedora either.  I've noticed it as far back as RH7.3 
> but it's finally bugged me to the point of asking.
> 
> Any ideas?
> 
> Regards,  Mike Klinke
> 
> 
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