since I’ve upgraded to OpenSUSE 12.3, I have some issues with the task bar. After some time, it doesn’t show up (I have it set to “automatic hiding”) when I move cursor down the screen. When I press ALT+F2 to run an application, the taskbar shows up (together with the run-command window). It then works like it should for some time and then stops again, etc.
I also noticed, that my screen blinks (redraws) when the taskbar is shown, but that does not seems to be a related issue. It’s rather slow -radeon driver, I think.
What you think doesn’t matter, we need to know what things really are. This means I’ve got a few questions:
How was the upgrade performed? From which version?
Is this on KDE/GNOME ?
Output of
…all fglrx blacklisted. I had previously OpenSUSE 12.1 and upgraded directly to 12.3. I run fglrx-legacy drivers on 12.1 - the beta ones with watermark and they were fine. Legacy drivers didn’t work in 12.3 (and according to some posts they will never work), so I configured X myself to blacklist fglrx and load radeon.
I think that this cannot be the case, as this seems to be an error in pointer event handling, not a graphic related stuff. The “show toolbar” (however it is called in KDE’s API) function is just not triggered.
My system is hi-spec 64bit.
One more interesting thing to add is, that I actually use two panels, one in the bottom and one at the top (for many years). They both have absolutely same problem - when one is not showing up, other doesn’t show either.
**Furthermore, I tested different KDE commands in different corners of the screen and they doesn’t work either (doesn’t matter in which corner), except for “Show desktop” and “Show Plasma workspace” commands. They don’t work AT ALL, even when taskbar are working.
**I suspect a bit, that this issue could be due to updating the system (not installing from scratch). Even though I erased ALL KDE settings after update (KDE was crashing with old settings).