It's back: Phantom window

[joneall]

Since upgrading to 10.10, I see a "phantom" window, that is, just a window edge, in the ULH corner of the screen and occupying about 2/3 of the screen in either direction. The window contents (whatever they may be) are transparent but it's not very pretty. I see it on both of my "desktops" (Is that the right term for those plasma thingies?).

What can this come from?

[sithlord48]

Re: Phantom window

i have seen this before. im not sure what causes it but it very easy to fix.

system settings->Workspace Apperance ->Desktop Theme , and just change the theme. hit apply and it should go away, you can then set your theme back and hit apply again. your "window" should be gone now. (you might be able to fix by changing the desktop type too.., but i have not tried that way)

[joneall]

Re: Phantom window

i have seen this before. im not sure what causes it but it very easy to fix.

system settings->Workspace Apperance ->Desktop Theme , and just change the theme. hit apply and it should go away, you can then set your theme back and hit apply again. your "window" should be gone now. (you might be able to fix by changing the desktop type too.., but i have not tried that way)

That worked perfectly. Thanks a lot!

[joneall]

Re: AGAIN: Phantom window

Uh, I did a dist-upgrade yesterday to 2.6.35-27 and now the trick does not work any more.

In addition, the Plasma cashew is no longer in the URH corner of the screen. But the phantom window has a tab "General" which seems to have replaced the cashew.

Any suggestions?

[joneall]

Re: It's back: Phantom window

I don't know if this is related, but since the dist-upgrade, when I click on the launcher or any of the buttons like the volume control, the window appears at the TOP of my screen instead of the bottom. That's a nuisance because it requires more moving around of the mouse.

[joneall]

Re: It's back: Phantom window

Related to this, how can I tell which version of Plasma is installed?

[dibl]

Re: It's back: Phantom window

Related to this, how can I tell which version of Plasma is installed?

sudo apt-cache policy plasma-desktop

[joneall]

Re: It's back: Phantom window

sudo apt-cache policy plasma-desktop

Well, dibl, that answers one of my questions. Here's mine:

$ sudo apt-cache policy plasma-desktop
plasma-desktop:
 Installed: 4:4.5.5-0ubuntu1ppa1
 Candidate: 4:4.5.5-0ubuntu1ppa1
 Version table:
 *** 4:4.5.5-0ubuntu1ppa1 0
    500 [url]http://ppa.launchpad.net/kubuntu-ppa/ppa/ubuntu/[/url] maverick/main amd64 Packages
    100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
   4:4.5.1-0ubuntu8 0
    500 [url]http://fr.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/[/url] maverick/main amd64 Packages

I gather this means I'm at Plasma 4.5.5.

Now, I just noticed that something has happened (I wish I knew what) and that my phantom window is gone. Not only that, but when I click on the launcher or anything else on the panel, it opens at the bottom where it belongs. It's as if there had been some sort of synchronisation problem with the screen, like you used to see on tv sets. Hmmm....