7 May
2024
7 May
'24
1:27 a.m.
Felix Miata composed on 2023-11-20 22:09 (UTC-0500):
Felix Miata composed on 2022-05-08 02:22 (UTC-0500):
> I see this error popup on various installations.
The instant one is a 32bit
> Bookworm freshly upgraded from Bullseye with 14.0.12. Bullseye does it too. The
> trigger is left clicking on the menu starter. On those where it ever occurs, it
> only happens once. Trying again after dismissing the popup always works. Anyone
> familiar with it, what to do to eliminate it?
Pentium 4 32bit host gx270 here with Bullseye,
Bookworm and Trixie all exhibit this.
This still happens in 14.1.2. The current instance:
# inxi -CGS
System:
Host: gb970 Kernel: 6.8.9-300.fc40.x86_64 arch: x86_64 bits: 64
Desktop: TDE (Trinity) v: R14.1.2 Distro: Fedora Linux 40 (Forty)
CPU:
Info: quad core model: AMD Phenom II X4 965 bits: 64 type: MCP cache:
L2: 2 MiB
Speed (MHz): avg: 3423 min/max: N/A cores: 1: 3423 2: 3423 3: 3423 4: 3423
Graphics:
Device-1: NVIDIA GF108 [GeForce GT 630] driver: nouveau v: kernel
Display: x11 server: X.Org v: 1.20.14 driver: X: loaded: modesetting
unloaded: fbdev,vesa dri: nouveau gpu: nouveau resolution: 1: 1680x1050~60Hz
2: 1920x1200~60Hz
API: OpenGL v: 4.3 vendor: mesa v: 24.0.6 renderer: NVC1
API: Vulkan v: 1.3.280 drivers: N/A surfaces: xcb,xlib
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This is an upgrade from F39 to F40, but before logging into a TDE session, I
removed .kde and .trinity. Yet, for too many years running since first observed,
it's happening yet again after doing no more than using kpersonalizer:
Checkboxes checked/enabled in Eyecandy-O-Meter:
Desktop Wallpaper
Display Contents in Moving/Resizing Windows
Icon Highlighting
Icons on Buttons
Large Panel Icons
Panel Background Picture
Panel Icon Popups
Smoothed Fonts
Sound Theme
and then after the desktop painted, I clicked on the menu starter to produce the
popup.
Normally I first do clock configuration, panel configuration and the usual
customizations in KControl, but this time I skipped that, closed the two new user
windows, and went straight to menu starter to cause the malformed popup. :P After
that happened, I logged out of TDE again, deleted .trinity again, then opened a
new session in exactly the same fashion, kpersonalizer > close KTip > close TDE
license window > click menu starter. So obviously it doesn't take a whole lot of
effort to reproduce. I don't seem to be able to /not/ reproduce it, since I've
done it today 4 times already.
Note that unlike years ago, it's not a just once thing. If the session is kept
open and used normally, the popup recurs when attempting to use the menu starter.
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Felix Miata
