Yast2 sw_single has parts of window displayed incorrectly

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Hello all,

Recently I’ve noticed that ever since I upgraded to 12.1(just 2 or 3 weeks ago), Yast2 has parts of the software management screen blacked out where things should not be blacked out. This makes it impossible to see the un-selectable black text on the black background. Here is a screenshot:
http://i.imgur.com/otgAF.png

I have tried several things, including un- and re-installing the yast2-control-center-* packages. That seemed to have no effect.

Any help would be much appreciated.
I use Xfce4 with kdm, on openSUSE 12.1(I will update my signature momentarily).

Many thanks,
Thomas

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Upgraded?..from?

Try a different decor/theme such as Sonar

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11.4

I did, but the blacked out parts remain.The only part that changes(regardless of the theme) is that the text becomes a greyish-green, which is legible, but I would still prefer it to look normal.
Could it have something to do with the nVidia driver(for the GeForce 5 FX)? I am using the latest one.

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Test a new user login, although it’s unlikely to be this route, it’s worth a check.

nVidia?.. well, maybe. But you would have to know what it was like without it? Or uninstall it.

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Hey guys, sorry for the late response :open_mouth:

I tried all of your suggestions, alas, none of them worked. This wasn’t my only problem with 12.1, though, so after a bit of deciding, I decided to go back to 11.4, as that worked just fine for me for the longest time. Part of me says not to do that, but the practical side says that I have other more pressing things to take care of, so this is the best (ad-hoc) fix.

Thanks anyways, though :slight_smile:

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I actually came up against this issue on a new install of 12.2 gnome this week
It looks like a bug to me. Did you report it?

I ran all the patches and updates and it didn’t help.
But once I switched to QT UI: http://forums.opensuse.org/content/96-switch-yast-interface-qt.html
It was OK
I just prefer QT, It’s so much better

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On 2012-09-25 06:56, caf4926 wrote:
>
> I actually came up against this issue on a new install of 12.2 gnome
> this week
> It looks like a bug to me. Did you report it?
>
> I ran all the patches and updates and it didn’t help.
> But once I switched to QT UI:
> http://forums.opensuse.org/content/96-switch-yast-interface-qt.html
> It was OK
> I just prefer QT, It’s so much better

It is possible that you do not have all parts of gtk installed, which can happen after an
upgrade. I don¡t have this issue. Correction, I do, it just is not apparent always. And I can
see the text, as grey over black background.

Well, have any of you reported it?

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Cheers / Saludos,

Carlos E. R.
(from 12.1 x86_64 “Asparagus” at Telcontar)

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I would, but I’m perfectly content with 11.4 right now, as that works just fine.

I did do exactly that, multiple times, but no change happened,

That sounds like what it could have been. I did reinstall every part of YaST, though.