[lug] KDE won't render correctly, but GNOME does!?

[Michael Hirsch]

On Wed, Jan 15, 2014 at 4:32 PM, Orion Poplawski <orion at cora.nwra.com>wrote:

> On 01/15/2014 04:23 PM, Michael Hirsch wrote:
> > My colleague has a system that she runs Fedora 20 on.  She's been running
> > GNOME, but recently decided to try KDE.  So she installed KDE from the
> yum
> > repo and tried to log in.
> >
> > Everything went fine until her desktop displays finalizes.  The little
> icons
> > appear alon the bottom of the screen as KDE initializes, then things go
> > wonky.  Right when her desktop should finally appear things go bad.  The
> panel
> > at the bottom just shows a little bit on the left, and nothing else.  The
> > desktop folder is completely invisible.  If you click where you know the
> > footprint (KDE menu) menu should be, it partly displays.  As you mouse
> over
> > where it should be, some more of it displays.  Some of it will hide, too.
> >
> > The same thing happens if you open a program like konsole or
> system-settings.
> > It partly displays.  System-setting mostly displays if you mouse over it,
> > though the window decorations (minimize, maximize, close, titlebar, etc)
> never
> > seem to show up.  Konsole never shows much at all.
> >
> > I tried changing resolutions.  The resolution would change, but the
> behavior
> > stayed the same.
> >
> > I've never seen this sort of behavior.  It is like the background keeps
> > overwriting the windows, but at random.
> >
> > Anyone know what's going on?  She has a NVIDIA Corporation NV44 [Quadro
> NVS
> > 285] video card and is displaying on a viewsonic vg2230wm-3 monitor.
> >
> > Everything works well in GNOME which I find particularly disturbing.
>  Boths
> > should just be clients of the X server, so how can KDA mess it up so
> much?
> >
> > Any ideas?
>
> OpenGL rendering issues?  Alt+Shift+F12 will toggle desktop effects.
>

I thought I tried turning them off, but I'll try again.  I didn't know the
correct keystroke, maybe.

Thanks,

Michael
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