drek wrote:
>
> I'm seeing the same effect with the Mandrake 6 distro under both fvwm and kde,
> and it occurs at all resolutions.
>
> Whenever I move a window, it develops ghost windows that are displaced about
> one inch to the left, right, and top. They appear and disappear rapidly,
> giving a flash effect. As soon as I let the window go, the effect goes away.
> It doesn't happen nearly as often with animated GIFs.
>
> This doesn't occur with RH6, COL22, or SUSE 6, same hardware and resolutions.
>
> It doesn't seem to hurt anything, but it is weird looking. Haven't seen it
> since the bad old days of DOS3.3. Haven't swapped the build of XFree for the
> one in RH6 just to see if it's there.
>
> I guess this is one for the people who compile kernels. What compile time
> option could cause this?
>
> > sliding that tool
> > > bar thingy in and out) the screen goes kind of jittery. As soon as the
> > > animation finishes, the jitters stop too. I
> >
> > I'm not clear what you mean by jitters, is it slowing down or is it more
> > like bad tv reception. Judgeing from the hardware i'd lower the resolution
> > or try a lighter windowmanager..
I had that problem once when I had the scan rate/sync set too high for
the monitor see if you can adjust that a bit.
