8.10 & Nvidia + OOoo

[Nigel Ridley]

Jonas Norlander wrote:
> 2008/11/10 Nigel Ridley <nigel at prayingforisrael.net>:
>> My son wanted to do some homework yesterday using OpenOffice. The computer has a Geforce card and
>> is using the Nvidia drivers. I know that there are still some issues with the Nvidia drivers but
>> I have found another one:
>> Open OpenOffice; click inside the window, then click on the desktop or let the mouse pointer
>> hover over the Panel buttons; or click on the Kmenu button -- we get some really cool desktop
>> effects - the colors all get inverted, most times the desktop goes black but sometimes the
>> wallpaper color is inverted and it looks awesome!
>> OK, back to reality - it's basically unusable! Does anybody have any idea when Nvidia are going
>> to get their drivers sorted out?
>>
>> How do I switch to the nv driver?
>>
>> Blessings,
>>
>> Nigel
> 
> You can try to disable the Desctop effects (if you have it enabled) to
> see if it make any difference.
> 
> / Jonas
> 
I thought that those were the desktop effects ;-)

No, desktop effect were disabled.

Nigel

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