[UNSOLVED] video weirdness

[vc]

This behaviour began this evening:

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[Rudge]

vc, is that what it looks like when you open Dolphin or dose it happen after you run your mouse over the files. It looks like some sort of distorted "highlight" thing.  You know like a "highlight for copy and paste" strange.. 

[vc]

vc, is that what it looks like when you open Dolphin or dose it happen after you run your mouse over the files. It looks like some sort of distorted "highlight" thing.  You know like a "highlight for copy and paste" strange.. 

After the cursor passing over the files.  I've not opened Konqueror yet, for comparison... can't quite grasp whatever may have caused this behaviour.  The only previous system activity was gkrellm, the Firefox I'm typing this into now, SameGame, and an instance of GIMP (I was instructing my wife, and guiding her through her first usage of same - she did well.).

[vc]

Hmph.  Pretty much the same:

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[vc]

Additional:  Currently, only Firefox, Dolphin, and Konqueror running right now.  Firefox completely unaffected; performance is absolutely normal.  Dolphin and Konqueror both affected; 100% repeatable.

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[Rudge]

vc, do you use the compiz stuff?

[vc]

No - only the standard KDE4 compositing is enabled; I've not installed compiz.

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Oh wait; I did install that Cairo dock last evening, to have a look at it... but it's not been run again since.  I greatly prefer my highly-functional taskbar panel, thank you - and huge thanks yet again, to all the kind people who assisted me, in my previous thread regarding same!  This is indeed the taskbar I had wished for - it is so unobtrusive, you may notice that the statusbar of the window beneath remains visible enough to be comprehensible, and so therefore useful.

I just wish KDE would allow me more desktops.  Twenty is too constraining.  I'd prefer the full 99... but I'm not sure if it'd be possible.

[Was_Just19]

I can barely count to 99 .......  no hope of remembering what is on them all ......... shoot I have only just moved to four and cannot keep track of them! ........   99!  Arghhhhhhhhhhh!!!!!!!

[vc]

I can barely count to 99 .......  no hope of remembering what is on them all ......... shoot I have only just moved to four and cannot keep track of them! ........   99!  Arghhhhhhhhhhh!!!!!!!

Throughout more than two years of near-constant usage, I have discovered that the optimal pattern of operation of a full KDE desktop environment on an original model 4G or 701 EeePC is to ensure that apps are set to open with the 'Maximised' and 'No Border' window settings forced, and to run one such app per desktop, utilising the Ctrl+Alt+Arrowkeys to navigate between them in an instant.  Since GKrellM does not conform to the standard KDE window control method, I usually set it to autorun upon startup and thus always open on desktop 1 - thereby leaving 'room' for nineteen other apps.  I have accordingly since found (while at work, generally) that with even that number, I do occasionally still run out of desktops nevertheless.

Furthermore, I have found that this pattern of usage has by now become a firmly-entrenched habit - because it is such a convenient and efficient method of desktop utilisation, I have by now become not only accustomed but also pretty much entirely dependent upon having so many desktops.  I believe that the reason for this bears heavily upon your comment of being able to remember where apps are, because with this method such memory becomes more spatial in nature, rather than abstract - because a peripheral glance at the pager indicates one's present position, in the overall 'map' of desktops.  As I am male in gender, I find this 'locational' memory seems more intuitive to me somehow, and so I am able to flick between apps surely, and with ease.

For that reason alone, I now detest using Windows - I feel very claustrophobic, when requested to do so, and I also feel lost and clumsy, as my fingers instinctively keep hitting the Ctrl+Alt+Arrowkeys.  There are certainly plenty of other reasons to detest Windows, but that one in particular is always the first thing that rankles - with the lack of any Klipper usually being the next.  ;-)