I've been having problems with my transparent Konsole which I
think might be related to the Gnome 2 packages. I'm running the KDE
3.0.4 packages off kde.org on sid.
When I start Konsole, instead of showing the desktop image as the
Konsole background it shows whatever is displaying beneath it -- a
window and its border, the desktop icons, whatever. It's *really*
transparent.
I'd better put some screenshots up:
http://www.rivenstone.net/images/konsole/konsole2.jpg
If I move the Konsole window around, the background does not
change, but if I move another window on top of Konsole, that window
then shows in place of the background when Konsole is raised again.
http://www.rivenstone.net/images/konsole/konsole3.jpg
Also, the background doesn't redraw itself in the place of text
that is deleted or scrolled off the screen, so text looks like it's
leaving a "trail". This is best demonstrated with a shot of a konsole
after running `ls`.
http://www.rivenstone.net/images/konsole/konsole4.jpg
So I've figured out that the background isn't drawing *at all*.
If you look at this last screenshot of a really fscked up Konsole
running top, you can see the one line of reverse video is fine --
because it's all text.
http://www.rivenstone.net/images/konsole/konsole1.jpg
The reason I think this problem might be related to the Gnome 2
packages is that I first had this problem a two months or so ago just after
installing some of those packages out of experimental. I eventually
took the experimental lines out of my sources.list about a month ago.
One day, out of the blue, Konsole stopped acting funny. It was
fine for about a week, and then it started up again after running
`apt-get upgrade` for the first time after the Gnome 2 packages hit
unstable.
This isn't a whole lot to go on, sorry. I seem to be able to fix
most problems on my own, but I don't even know where to begin with this.
--
Joseph Fannin
jhf@rivenstone.net
Rothchild's Rule -- "For every phenomenon, however complex, someone will
eventually come up with a simple and elegant theory. This theory will
be wrong."
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