With the recent move of X.org into testing, I installed it, upgraded KDE to 3.4 from unstable, and proceeded to try out the new stuff. Shadows work great, but as soon as I turn on translucency, the computer locks up hard. Well, I can move the mouse cursor, but that is absolutely it. No keyboard input works at all--can't change VTs, can't restart X. No mouse clicking works. It took several hard resets before I figured out that translucency was the cause.
Since these special effects in X.org are known to be somewhat unstable right now, should I file a bug on this, or just wait for a new release? It obviously doesn't have this effect on everyone's system, or else no one would use translucency at all, so perhaps it's an issue with Debian's build of it? Anyway, should I file a bug or just wait? :)