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Display problem in Kubuntu

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  • 09-01-2013 3:11pm
    #1
    Artful_Badger
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    Every so often when I right click to get the menu its outline doesnt go away. When I used to use Gnome Shell in Ubuntu I'd just hit Alt F2 and then r to reload the shell. But I recently switch to the KDE plasma and I cant figure out how to do the equivalent.

    Problem itself I dont mind if I can find a quick way to just reload the display or something. Anyone have any ideas ?

    https://us.v-cdn.net/6034073/uploads/attachments/611845/235581.png


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    Khannie
    Moderators, Technology & Internet Moderators Posts: 37,485 Mod ✭✭✭✭Khannie


    What graphics card / drivers are you using? That should never happen.


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    Artful_Badger
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,339 ✭✭✭Artful_Badger


    Khannie wrote: »
    What graphics card / drivers are you using? That should never happen.

    This is the graphics card info right ?

    00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation Mobile 4 Series Chipset Integrated Graphics Controller (rev 09)

    I'm not sure how to check the driver.


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    timbyr
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    Does this happen only with context menus within Chrome/Chromium? Or any context menu?

    Something similar happened occasionally to me with Chrome which I think was related to hardware accelerated rendering.

    It would go away by closing all Chrome windows and then running 
    killall -9 chrome
    to remove any defunct processes.


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    Artful_Badger
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    timbyr wrote: »
    Does this happen only with context menus within Chrome/Chromium? Or any context menu?

    Something similar happened occasionally to me with Chrome which I think was related to hardware accelerated rendering.

    It would go away by closing all Chrome windows and then running 
    killall -9 chrome
    to remove any defunct processes.

    I do use chrome a lot and don't recall it ever happening with anything else. Ill try that command next time it happens.


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    Artful_Badger
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,339 ✭✭✭Artful_Badger


    Yep its a chrome issue all right. Cant believe I never copped that before as simply closing chrome fixed it.

    Bad thing about it though is that often I'd have stuff loaded and wouldnt like to close chrome. Gnome Shell was handy in that regard as the shell could be reloaded without closing any applications.

    Did you find a permanent solution timbyr or did it just stop happening ?


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    timbyr
    Registered Users Posts: 78 ✭✭timbyr


    CroMagnonMan wrote: »
    Yep its a chrome issue all right. Cant believe I never copped that before as simply closing chrome fixed it.

    Bad thing about it though is that often I'd have stuff loaded and wouldnt like to close chrome. Gnome Shell was handy in that regard as the shell could be reloaded without closing any applications.

    Did you find a permanent solution timbyr or did it just stop happening ?

    I was running the Development channel of Chrome with a lot of the [URL="http://chrome:flags"]flags [/URL]enabled.
    I've since disabled a lot of the flags related to hardware acceleration, and the problem has disappeared.
    But since the Dev channel is updated regularly so I'm not sure if it was disabling the flags or an update that fixed the issue.


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