"white box" in oxygen-gtk in kde

sarimkhan · April 29, 2011, 2:26pm

OS: Opensuse 11.4 KDE. Installed from KDE LIVE CD.

The problem is, when running gtk apps, All apps has a ugly white box in top.
Picture told better than text,
pidgin and gimp,
http://www.rongmohol.com/extensions/pic_man/img/upload/2689whiteboxgtk.jpeg

geany ide,
http://www.rongmohol.com/extensions/pic_man/img/upload/2687whiteboxgtk1.jpeg

monodevelop ide,
http://www.rongmohol.com/extensions/pic_man/img/upload/2688whiteboxgtk2.jpeg

These all are gtk apps and have the same problem. :’(

Taken steps,

Updated all gtk* packages (zypper update gtk*)
Reinstalled “oxygen-gtk” and “oxygen-icon-theme”

Have any idea how can i get rid of these boxes ?

martin_helm · April 29, 2011, 3:03pm

sarimkhan wrote:
> Have any idea how can i get rid of these boxes ?
>
I changed the gtk style when I saw this and do no longer use oxygen-gtk
(which I did not like anyway).

Maybe you can file a bug if you think it should be changed?

sarimkhan · April 29, 2011, 8:44pm

Of course it should be changed, i installed opensuse kde in a friend’s computer, surprisingly the problem didn’t occur that time.

martin_helm · April 29, 2011, 9:17pm

sarimkhan wrote:
> Of course it should be changed,
No need to tell it here - of course you can tell
but it will not change anything. You need to make the developers aware of
that(they are not here in the forum) with a good bug description (read this)
http://en.opensuse.org/openSUSE:Submitting_bug_reports

sarimkhan · April 29, 2011, 10:48pm

Yeah, I will submit bug report. In a coincidence i got a new clue, my nVidia graphics card’s temperature rose to maximum due to dust blocking the cooling fan, so removed nVidia and started opensuse with motherboard builtin intel graphics. Viola , the white boxes are gone. So definitely its an nVidia bug now, what why all people are not affected with it.

sarimkhan · April 29, 2011, 11:06pm

submitted a bug report https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=690983

martin_helm · April 29, 2011, 11:36pm

sarimkhan wrote:

>
> Yeah, I will submit bug report. In a coincidence i got a new clue, my
> nVidia graphics card’s temperature rose to maximum due to dust blocking
> the cooling fan, so removed nVidia and started opensuse with motherboard
> builtin intel graphics. Viola , the white boxes are gone. So definitely
> its an nVidia bug now, what why all people are not affected with it.
>
I am affected (but do not care since I use the oxygen-gtk only as long as it
takes to change it, this time I forgot and saw it in geany). It is not clear
if it is a nvidia bug or a KDE bug which just happens with nvidia, but for
your info and to confirm as you see below I also have nvidia with the
proprietary driver.
Let the developer figure that out, they can debug it. But add all your
observations.
(I speak here myself as a developer, it is my job. It is better to get a bug
report from the customer without assumptions from the user what it might be,
but with all details they can provide).

sarimkhan · April 30, 2011, 11:14am

Attached nVidia graphics card again, and updated to driver version 270.41.06.
Problem fixed, white boxes are gone.

martin_helm · April 30, 2011, 2:59pm

sarimkhan wrote:

>
> Attached nVidia graphics card again, and updated to driver version
> 270.41.06.
> Problem fixed, white boxes are gone.
>
Thank you for feedback. I just updated to 270 and checked now oxygen-gtk
with geany and gedit, the white box is also gone here. But now quickly back
to clearlooks, I just can’t stand oxygen-gtk