11.4 Gnome visual artifacts in buttons

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Hi,

I recently upgraded from 11.3 to 11.4 using the “zypper dup”-method, because I have made good experiences with that approach with my last upgrade. However I have some strange visual artifacts throughout the system now. When a button is in its pushed state, then at the left and top edge, where normally a drop-shadow would be drawn, is a white bar, as shown in the picture below

http://martindomke.net/buttons.png

This also applies to progress-bars (for example when starting eclipse but also for all other applications)

http://martindomke.net/eclipse.png

Also the systems feels slower than usual when switching between applications. Can’t tell if this is important, but I have a Nvidia Quadro NVS 160M graphics card with the latest driver (version 260.19.44).

Any help would be appreciated!

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I can just confirm the problem. New clean installation of opensuse 11.4 x86-64, nVidia GeForce 9200M GS with proprietary drivers. The same problem, very annoying!

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Razorcold wrote:

>
> I can just confirm the problem. New clean installation of opensuse 11.4
> x86-64, nVidia GeForce 9200M GS with proprietary drivers. The same
> problem, very annoying!
>
Same here on 11.3 with gnome 2.32 from the gnome stable repositorie and
nvidia driver.
But it doesn’t bother me too much.
I just changed the theme to gilouche :s

–
Chris Maaskant

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Actually changing the theme does not make any difference to me.

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Check out here
OpenSUSE 11.4, NVidia binary driver and weird looking gtk buttons
Problems with gtk?

I have patched cairo in my repo to fix this
Index of /repositories/home:/inp3dance/openSUSE_11.4

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Ok, the patch is a great deal, but official. Any bug reports? If not, let post it. Ok?

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Bug is already reported https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=679039

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There is a bug report, the link is somewhere on the other two posts about this problem. I mean if bugzilla.novel.com is the right place to post bugreports for openSUSE.

OK, here is the bugreport:
https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=679039

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As pointed out in the Wiki it seems to be the right place…

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Installing nvidia beta drivers fixed the problem. Not the best solution, of course, but working.

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I’m actually not so sure if the bug-report mentioned above really describes the problem (it occurs for the KDE-desktop and shows other effects). Maybe inp3dance could file in a proper report as he already seems to know what the problem is.