MASTER - nvidia drivers + OO.o trigger plasma drawing artifacts

[John Pennycook]

Binary package hint: openoffice.org-core

Whenever I open any OpenOffice.org application (and have it selected in the task manager) plasma starts acting funny.

- Moving the mouse over programs in the plasma task manager causes them to disappear.
- The clock either turns transparent or layers each figure change on top of the old ones.
- The "Add Widgets" panel gets stuck halfway between minimised and maximised with some crazy red and blue dots around it.

This happens without fail on both of my Kubuntu 8.04 (KDE 4 Remix) installs, using version 1:2.4.0-3ubuntu6 of openoffice.org-core. I've yet to see it happen with any other application.

[Jonathan Thomas (echidnaman)]

Confirming due to duplicate.

[Jonathan Thomas (echidnaman)]

This is actually a Plasma/KDE bug. Adding the bug report link shortly.

[Yuriy Kozlov (yuriy-kozlov)]

I can confirm this as well, and it's not just OpenOffice, happens with Eclipse and some other apps as well, but not Firefox and Pidgin, so it's not just all non-KDE apps.

[Jonathan Thomas (echidnaman)]

Not a KDE bug, but rather an nvidia driver problem.

[Yuriy Kozlov (yuriy-kozlov)]

This may be the same bug as bug 186382. I don't know why that one is marked as fixed though.

[Jonathan Thomas (echidnaman)]

Actually I believe this was fixed in the beta drivers. (177)

[luvr (luc-vanrompaey)]

I agree with Jonathan Thomas that this must be an nVIDIA driver problem.
It doesn't happen on a (newly assembled) AMD64 system with an ATI graphics adapter.

[Jonathan Thomas (echidnaman)]

Can't be fixed in the 173 drivers since that package contains one driver version.

[Christian Schürer-Waldheim (quincunx)]

It is not fixed with 177 drivers. The problem also shows up when minimizing KRDC with an open rdp session.

[Julien Aubin (gojulgarbmail)]

A workaround consists in deactivating blinking cursors in qtconfig-qt3 (install package qt3-qtconfig) and in Gnome control center (section keyboard)
This improves a lot the situation.

[Dmitriy Geels (dmig)]

actually this bug and bug #186382 are duplicates

[Julien Aubin (gojulgarbmail)]

Looks like it is fixed in NVidia driver 180.06. This driver is currently a beta release.

"-".

[Dirk Seidel (dseidel)]

NVidia released driver 180.22. Could you please include it in the repositories.