boatman9 Posted August 30, 2010 Report Share Posted August 30, 2010 After installing an ATI Radeon RV100 QY [Radeon 7000/VE] video card (according to lspci) and doing a fresh install of 2010.1 kde4 version I encountered a curios problem. After booting I soon noticed that the kde4 desktop icons and wallpaper seemed to be missing, however the task bar appeared normal. I could tell that the unseen icons were still there because left-click over the expected icon location would bring up the usual icon menu. While experimenting in the Guest account I found that disabling Compositing made the desktop icons and wallpaper appear. What is Compositing and how does it cause desktop icons and wallpaper to disappear? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
daniewicz Posted August 30, 2010 Report Share Posted August 30, 2010 I don't have a direct answer to your question, but 3D desktop effects are linked to compositing. I has similar quirkiness when using my NVidia card with KDE and Mandriva 2010.1. I disabled 3D desktop effects, compositing became disabled, and my problems went away. I guess KDE 4 is still not completely ready for prime time? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
boatman9 Posted August 31, 2010 Author Report Share Posted August 31, 2010 I found another way to turn off compositing; In MLCC turn off "Enable Translucency (Composite Extension)". This disables compositing on all user accounts at once, no need to set each account manually. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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