screen "dirt" in non kde apps

[Martin J Hooper]

miquel loriz toro wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> I am  new to kubuntu, I've shift from Suse and I am glad of that. My laptop 
> runs considerably faster. But I have a little problem since two days ago. I 
> can't remember doing anything special but the thing is that non KDE 
> applications (firefox or NVU) doesn't display very well. I see a lot of lines 
> and dirt when scrolling. This is not happening with Kde applications. I've 
> changed the resolution in KDE but I don't know how to do anything for the 
> other aplications.

I don't know if this will help or not but if you install 
gtk2-engines-gtk-qt it makes your GTK2 apps use KDE themes.  This could 
solve your problem - not sure though.