Bug 208692 – Desktop icons start to blink and desktop turns black.

• Status: RESOLVED NEEDINFO
• Product: Gentoo Linux

[Description Angela Pineros 2008-02-03 04:48:19 UTC]

I have recently install KDE 4 and since then I been having this problem, This only occurs when I am using Firefox...I am not sure why. 

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.only when I open and use Firefox.
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Actual Results:  
The desktop starts blinking and then turns black.My desktop icons turn to weird colors ( see my screen shot)

[Comment 1 Bernd Steinhauser 2008-02-03 05:26:45 UTC]

Please attach you "emerge --info" output.

The url to the screenshot won't work, no anonymous login (with ftp) or 403 (http://tata.binaryfreedom.info/Imagenes/snapshot1.png).

Does firefox tell you something, when you start it from the konsole?
Are there some errors in your ~/.xsession-errors file?
The best is to mv your current ~/.xsession-errors file to ~/.xsession-errors.old so you will only see the new errors.
Make sure you clean that file from private stuff before attaching it.

In addition your kwinrc configuration file might be helpful, you'll find it in ~/.kde4.0/share/config/ .

[Comment 2 Christian Fernandez 2008-02-03 07:12:15 UTC]

I have the same problem

[Comment 3 Angela Pineros 2008-02-04 03:58:43 UTC]

So I try running firefox from the console But nothing happend just "No running windows found". But no big errors.

[Comment 4 Bernd Steinhauser 2008-02-07 15:28:07 UTC]

(In reply to comment #2)
> I have the same problem
> 

This is not very helpful, if you have got the same problem please try to provide information about what is causing it. Some emerge --info output would be a start.

(In reply to comment #3)
> So I try running firefox from the console But nothing happend just "No running
> windows found". But no big errors.
> 

Then please try some of the other things.

[Comment 5 Wulf Krueger (RETIRED) 2008-02-09 21:57:03 UTC]

Re-open after providing the information requested.