Garbage left on screen in 14.04

[c. marlow]

On 05/31/2014 01:20 PM, John Hupp wrote:
> On 5/31/2014 12:56 PM, c. marlow wrote:
>>
>> On 05/31/2014 07:10 AM, Israel wrote:
>>> On 05/30/2014 11:46 PM, c. marlow wrote:
>>>> Hello,
>>>>
>>>> I am starting to see garbage left on my screen like the picture below
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> http://i886.photobucket.com/albums/ac69/CMAR606/LUBUNTU/2014-05-30-234448_1280x1024_scrot.png 
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> That garbage left on the screen ( that clear box) was from me closing
>>>> a terminal window
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Any ideas why?
>>>>
>>>> And the only way to get it off the screen is open another program a
>>>> few times and it clears up on its own.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> This is a fresh install from 12.04 to 14.04 I reformatted the pc to 
>>>> 14.04
>>>>
>>>> Thanks,
>>>> Christopher
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>> Hi,
>>> I like your background, it is very epic!
>>>
>>> What kind of graphics card do you have?
>>> If you don't know you can run this command in a terminal
>>> lspci | grep VGA
>>>
>>> Did you install a proprietary driver for it?
>>> Do you have a compositor running (like xcompmgr or compton, etc...)?
>>>
>>> If you disable the drop shadows on the windows does it still leave the
>>> shadow?
>>>
>>> And finally have you updated you computer fully?
>>> sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get -y install
>>>
>>
>>
>> Hello Israel!
>>
>> christopher at COMPAQ:~$ lspci | grep VGA
>> 01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: NVIDIA Corporation GK107 [GeForce 
>> GT 640] (rev a1)
>> christopher at COMPAQ:~$
>>
>> Yes, I have the nvidia drivers installed.
>>
>> I think I have xcomp installed, I was trying to get DOCKY to work but 
>> it kept leaving this black shadow on the screen
>>
>>
>>
>> Thanks! and here is the desktop if you want it! I got it from VANILLA 
>> DEBIAN back when I used plain debian Wheezy.
>>
>> http://i886.photobucket.com/albums/ac69/CMAR606/LUBUNTU/opole-sky.jpg
>>
>>
>> Christopher
>>
>>>
>>
>
>
> Hmm, no xcomp or DOCKY on my machines, and no drop shadows on my 
> rectangles.  So perhaps I described a different problem than you're 
> working on.
>



Hi John,

Well I am not using docky atm... Just made a side bar in LUBUNTU by 
adding a panel that hides itself and put the programs ( not many ) that 
I do use and so far its working for me

Christopher


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