More of an aesthetic issue but when I startup or restart the x server my first monitor flashes random images* for a moment and my second monitor will show garbage until I actually login and my wallpaper shows up.
The images aren’t actually random. Most of the time it looks like what was displayed previously (peices of it anyway). For example when I logged out of one account and switched to another I saw the icon for the application switcher and a piece of firefox.
I moved my taskbar panel (KDE4 plasmas etc) to the top of my screen which works great when Kwin is my window manager but when I use compiz windows are created at the top of the screen leaving there title bars “below” the taskbar or out of screen. How can I change where windows are created by default?
For the NVidia garbage, I had the same issue with ‘garbage’ being shown on screen during the transition from KDM to the KDE splash screen. However, after I installed the latest drivers from the NVidia website manually, version 190.42, this issue went away.
There is a wiki link that shows how to use the NVidia drivers from the NVidia website:
If I already installed the nvidia drivers from the repos is there a special way I should uninstall them so I don’t ruin my system when I install the newer drivers?
I would probably download the new drivers, zypper rm the old drivers, reboot, then install the new drivers - just to be safe. Although I wouldn’t be surprised if you could simply just install the new drivers.
If this is the black-and-white-block-issue, then I´ve been coping with this a long time ago. Rest assured, it is not an issue resulting in taking “the easy way”.
Try this: Go to Yast2 -> Software Management and search for kde4-kdm-branding. Results showing up should be:
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> ChrisTarq;2059443 Wrote:
>> NVIDIA garbage:
>>
>> More of an aesthetic issue but when I startup or restart the x server
>> my first monitor flashes random images* for a moment and my second
>> monitor will show garbage until I actually login and my wallpaper shows
>> up.
>>
>> * The images aren’t actually random. Most of the time it looks like
>> what was displayed previously (peices of it anyway). For example when I
>> logged out of one account and switched to another I saw the icon for the
>> application switcher and a piece of firefox.
>>
>> This person has a simmiliar problem (no solution was posted though):
>> ‘KDM displays garbage with nvidia 185.18.14 - Super User’
>> (http://tinyurl.com/yjpm7se)
>>
>> Window Locations:
>>
>> I moved my taskbar panel (KDE4 plasmas etc) to the top of my screen
>> which works great when Kwin is my window manager but when I use compiz
>> windows are created at the top of the screen leaving there title bars
>> “below” the taskbar or out of screen. How can I change where windows are
>> created by default?
>>
>> Screenshot:
>> http://img33.imageshack.us/img33/7825/screenshotsq.png
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> That´s where I pop in.
>
> I´ve been coping with this a long time ago. Try this:
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> Go to Yast2 -> Software Management and search for kde4-kdm-branding.
> Results showing up should be:
>
> 1 Kde4-kdm-branding-openSUSE
> 2 Kde4-kdm-branding-upstream
>
> FIX: Select 2 (Kde4-kdm-branding-upstream) and then unselect 1
> (Kde4-kdm-branding-openSUSE) - you should be good to go.
>
> Cheers, buddy.
>
Another way I got rid of this in the past (as shown on one of the forumns).
Change /usr/share/kde4/apps/kdm/themes/SUSE/suse.xml line five to read (if
it dosen’t already):
