vertical color bars appearing in menus

[Claude Jones]

On Fri August 5 2005 1:20 pm, Rick Wagner wrote:
> On Friday 29 July 2005 11:28 am, Claude Jones wrote:
> > Running FC4 with KDE 3.4.2
> > This machine is an upgrade from FC3. In many menus, small, translucent
> > vertical colored bars appear over individual letters that are underlined
> > in menus, It first appeared everywhere after the upgrade, including in
> > Kmenu and most programs and even  the login screen. Since then, they've
> > disappeared from most of the above, but they still linger in some
> > programs and on the login screen. Unfortunately, I have no idea what
> > changed. For a screen grab, you can look here:
> > http://www.levitjames.com/kdecolorbars.html
> > I logged into Gnome yesterday, and the problem persisted in a couple of
> > programs (Kyum is one for example). I've tried all the items in the
> > desktop configuration, changing styles, widgets, etc. I looked at the
> > xorg conf file for anything obvious. I've posted this over at KDE-Redhat
> > but no one there is getting it, save one individual who got rid of it by
> > playing with his widget settings.
> > Anyone else getting this?
> > --
>
> I saw this before on another system.  I don't recall the solution, but it
> may have had something to do with the window style or decorations.  Make
> sure the window style and window decorations you select are built against
> your version of kde.  I thought they should be ABI compatable, but I have
> had problems in the past.  Start by changing to a standard style
> distributed with kde (i.e. bluecurve), if that works, rebuild your style,
> or find an updated package.
>
> HTH,
>
Thanks Rick, but I don't think that's it. I've got two FC4 boxes, both of them 
running the KDE-Redhat packages. One machine was upgraded from FC3 and it's 
the one with the problem. The other was built up from a fresh install. I've 
had a few other folks tell me that they had the same problem, and one found a 
solution by playing with the styles, widgets, and decorations. I've played 
endlessly with those settings, and many others. In all other respects, my two 
FC4 boxes are running identically configured desktops, yet one exhibits the 
issue, and the other doesn't. 

-- 
Claude Jones
Bluemont, VA, USA