>>>The same is true if I open the KDE Manager. I see the
>>> frame of its window, the words in it vaguely, but the background of
>>> the desktop shows through. I can't tell how to change a thing,
>>> because I can't read anything. If I try to move windows around,
>>> strange afterimages are left all over the place.
>>>
>> Sounds like you've got Enlightenment on top of KDE for your
>> X-windows manager..... E, AFAIK, is the only Window Manager
>> which allows transparent windows...
>
>On the contrary, this sounds like what happens to me when I bump my
>video up to 32-bit color. Out of curiosity, what
>card/chipset do you have?
Wow! Someone who seems to have seen this before! I have a Jaton Video-87AGP
which is a Trident 3D Image 975 chip. Supported, by all accounts, by the X
Server. I have run xf86config many times, sometimes selecting the card, and
sometimes selecting the configuration details myself (although it never
auto-selects for you) It gave me a TON of resolutions to choose from. I just
accepted default because I was at the time trying to get the damn thing to
run at all. I have scrolled through the resoulutions using
ctl-alt-[num+/num-] to no avail. Some resolutions don't show at all, and
those that do show have this weird transparent window problem. I am
convinced (by the various wisdom of benevolent newsgroup users) that this is
an X config problem. I looked through /etc/X11/XF86Config...even tried
changing some stuff, so that it never pointed to "generic VGA" but always to
the device card I had configured. No dice. What should I be trying? Where
should I be looking? Thanks for your help!
Gregg
