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    [SOLVED] White rectangle when running SeaMonkey

    I've had this happen before...maybe two years ago? I have no recollection now of how/why it went away--but it's back now! On my brand-new laptop, since reinstalling K, a mysterious white rectangle appears when I'm running SeaMonkey. And I run SeaMonkey ALL THE TIME.

    It's always in exactly the same spot, the top left corner of my screen:



    (The gray background isn't part of my screen--that's just part of the image so you can see the problem better. The white rectangle is always in the 0,0 position.)

    Its position doesn't vary with resizing or moving SeaMonkey. It's not selectable, i.e., clicking or right-clicking on it does nothing.

    As soon as I close SM the rectangle disappears. There is NOTHING extra in ps when running SM. I've compared ps output with and without SM running, and the ONLY difference is its program entry, which is /usr/local/seamonkey/seamonkey.

    Sometimes when I initially start SM the rectangle isn't there, but it ALWAYS appears at some point. I can see absolutely no common theme behind its appearance. I mean it doesn't seem to matter what sites I'm on, or which other programs I'm running, etc. It really seems completely random--except for the fact that it always eventually appears.

    Before I reinstalled K a few days ago, this was not happening. This is my new System76 laptop which came with Ubuntu 14.04 pre-installed; I wiped it and installed K 12.04 (see my thread about borking it for more info), then upgraded to 14.04 via version upgrades. This issue was NOT happening then. It was only after I wiped / and installed K from DVD that it started.

    Any ideas on what the [blankety blank] this is?
    Last edited by DoYouKubuntu; Aug 09, 2014, 02:01 PM.
    Xenix/UNIX user since 1985 | Linux user since 1991 | Was registered Linux user #163544


    #2
    Like you I use spider monkey through KDE (I mean Plasma desktop) but have never experienced this white rectangle in the top left of the monitor.

    Of course if I was a cynic I would suggest that it is caused by Canonical because you dared to replace Unity and Firefox from your Ubuntu laptop.

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      #3
      As long as I don't fire up SeaMonkey, the mysterious rectangle doesn't appear. But since SeaMonkey is my preferred browser and e-mail/newsgroup client, I ALWAYS have it running.

      This falls squarely into the "just a minor annoyance I'd like to get rid of" category as opposed to something that's really a big deal. But it bothers me!
      Xenix/UNIX user since 1985 | Linux user since 1991 | Was registered Linux user #163544

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        #4
        I figured it out!!

        In SeaMonkey's mail preferences, there's a setting to "Show an alert for X seconds" when new mail arrives. Ta da! That was it. I don't know what the alert is SUPPOSED to look like, but it showed up as that blank, white rectangle for me. And it didn't go away after X seconds. Once there, it stayed put until I closed SM.

        I was just sitting here, noticing that the white rectangle hadn't appeared yet since restarting SM a few minutes ago. Then, there it was. And I happened to notice that SM's 'new mail' icon [in the bottom left corner of its browser] had just changed. And the rest is history.
        Xenix/UNIX user since 1985 | Linux user since 1991 | Was registered Linux user #163544

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