Display Problem with GNOME Buttons - SOLVED

[David Woyciesjes]

Steve Grace wrote:
> On Tue, 2006-10-10 at 11:37 +0800, Gabriel M Dragffy wrote:
>> On Mon, 2006-10-09 at 18:45 -0700, Steve Grace wrote:
> 
>>> On my PC, most buttons in GNOME applications initially display with
>>> "dots" in them. There's a example here:
>>>
>>> http://members.cox.net/sgrace9/private/gnome.html
>>>
>>> The dots typically go away when the mouse pointer is placed over a
>>> button or when tabbing to/through a button, although there are actions
>>> that can make the dots reappear.
>>>
>>> My PC has an ATI RADEON 7000 video card.
> 
>> Hi, this is a known anomaly with some ATI cards. Graphical errors on
>> buttons. I think I remember reading that the best solution was to change
>> from using the default "Human" theme. This can be changed by going to
>> SYSTEM -> PREFERENCES -> THEME. I don't actually have the problem myself
>> but I setup Dapper on a friends laptop and ran in to the issue a long
>> time ago so perhaps I'm no accurate, but worth giving it a try.
> 
> That worked! Thanks!
> 
> All themes except Human and Outdoors seem to be OK.
> 
> 
> 

	I had this problem also, on my IBM Stinkpad A31p, Radeon Mobility 
FireGL 7800. Switched the theme to Silicon, and so far seems to be okay now.

(Replying, just as a another data point...)

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