On Friday 25 March 2005 21:59, Rod Engelsman wrote:
> Rod Engelsman wrote:
> > Group,
> > I have recently played with the 1.9.79 and now the 1.9.87 releases.
> > I've noticed something (actually it's very hard *not* to notice) that I
> > would like to pin down.
> >
> > When I pass the mouse over the icons in the toolbar and over buttons
> > in dialogs, the icons and buttons will flicker off and on rapidly. It's
> > like the rendering is slow or something. If you move the mouse rapidly,
> > you can actually see the buttons and icons disappearing and then
> > re-appearing. When I do this, the CPU activity spikes as well.
> >
> > My system is: Fedora Core 3, 2.6.10-(something) 770 kernel, 1.5 GHz
> > P4, 256 MB ram, Nvidia GeForce2 video card on the generic nv driver.
> >
> > I'm tempted to think part of the problem is that I need to install
> > the proprietary nvidia video driver, but I haven't had any issues with
> > previous releases of OOo or any other software for that matter.
> >
> > Any clues?
> >
> > Rod
>
> More info: This only happens under KDE. The icons and buttons etc. are
> fine if I run it under a Gnome session.
>
> Another (minor) issue with OOo and KDE is that the Writer component
> isn't installed in the KDE menu system. The other components are
> installed OK, just Writer is missing. It's not a huge deal to add it
> manually of course, but it does seem weird. And once again, this turns
> out not to be an issue when using Gnome. Although, come to think of it,
> an earlier release of OOo installed some items in Gnome, some items in
> KDE, but not the same items. I was missing Calc under Gnome and Writer
> under KDE. This all seems sort of random to me.
Thanks for the info Rod. It may be worth raising this issue as a problem so
that the developers of the generic nv driver can reproduce and fix it. (Or at
least so that you get to see when it is fixed).
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