Marinho P Barcellos wrote: > On 01/02/2008, at 01:30, Alexander K. Hansen wrote: > >> | I just installed fink and kde in order to have kile (latex IDE) | >> working on MacOS X. The installation went smoothly. I can run both >> kde | (such as kile and kwrite) and non-kde applications (such as >> gv), but | there is a nasty problem with kde applications. It seems >> a bug on the | drawing functions: when I scroll, on any kde screen, >> it simply | overlays with what is already there. So, the text >> becomes "smudged"? | This behavior happens with the file open >> dialog, for example, and any | other kde window. >> > [...] > > >> It sounds like you're saying that that you get this problem after >> you've started the KDE desktop and are running a KDE app. Is this >> correct? >> > I tried both. Since it is not necessary to run the kde desktop to run > a kde application, the idea is running kile only (as long as X11 is > running). However, to check if it was the cause of the problem, I also > run kde itself, with no avail. > > >> Do you have a .xinitrc file set up? If so, then what's in it? If >> you're not starting KDE in your .xinitrc that may well be playing a >> role in your problem. >> > When I tried running the kde desktop, .xinitrc had > source /sw/bin/init.sh > /sw/bin/startkde >/tmp/kde.log 2>&1 > > > > Thanks > Marinho. > > That's all fine, so let's try another potential place for issues. Have you applied any of the unofficial (but made by an Apple engineer) updates for Apple's X11 server from http://trac.macosforge.org/projects/xquartz/wiki/Releases ? If not, or if you don't have the 2.1.3 update yet, get that.
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