Re: [newbie] KDE is unreadable - weird transparent windows

1999-11-03 Thread Gregg Carrier
The same is true if I open the KDE Manager. I see the frame of its window, the words in it vaguely, but the background of the desktop shows through. I can't tell how to change a thing, because I can't read anything. If I try to move windows around, strange afterimages are left all over the

Re: [newbie] KDE is unreadable - weird transparent windows

1999-11-03 Thread Pablo Monti
y, November 02, 1999 7:02 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] KDE is unreadable - weird transparent windows On Tue, 02 Nov 1999, you wrote: Hello all, I just installed Linux-Mandrake 6.1 Power Pack and managed to get my X server configured. I am able to run startx and get into KDE. The appearan

Re: [newbie] KDE is unreadable - weird transparent windows

1999-11-03 Thread Pablo Monti
) and 2 ) to XF86Config and then KDE work quite well. PHM - Original Message - From: Gregg Carrier [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, November 03, 1999 9:39 AM Subject: Re: [newbie] KDE is unreadable - weird transparent windows The same is true if I open the KDE

Re: [newbie] KDE is unreadable - weird transparent windows

1999-11-03 Thread Tuan Nguyen
day, November 02, 1999 7:02 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] KDE is unreadable - weird transparent windows On Tue, 02 Nov 1999, you wrote: Hello all, I just installed Linux-Mandrake 6.1 Power Pack and managed to get my X server configured. I am able to run startx and get into KDE. The

Re: [newbie] KDE is unreadable - weird transparent windows

1999-11-03 Thread John Aldrich
On Tue, 02 Nov 1999, you wrote: Thanks for the reply! So, KDE is a Window Manager, as is Enlightenment, correct? So I don't need Enlightenment, correct? How can I get rid of it or tell if it is indeed installed? I have the default installation of Mandrake, that should use KDE, not GNOME. (I

Re: [newbie] KDE is unreadable - weird transparent windows

1999-11-03 Thread Gregg Carrier
I am in the exact same problem. I managed to configure my X server with my video card Trident 3DImage 975. I can't read anything, so weird. Pablo, would you please copy that portion of your configure file and post it here. I want to try it but I am not very good at using text editor to

Re: [newbie] KDE is unreadable - weird transparent windows

1999-11-03 Thread Pablo Monti
- Original Message - From: Tuan Nguyen [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, November 03, 1999 4:02 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] KDE is unreadable - weird transparent windows I am in the exact same problem. I managed to configure my X server with my video card Trident

Re: [newbie] KDE is unreadable - weird transparent windows

1999-11-03 Thread Gregg Carrier
yen [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, November 03, 1999 4:02 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] KDE is unreadable - weird transparent windows I am in the exact same problem. I managed to configure my X server with my video card Trident 3DImage 975. I can't read anything, so weird. Pab

Re: [newbie] KDE is unreadable - weird transparent windows

1999-11-03 Thread Matt Stegman
Wow! Someone who seems to have seen this before! I have a Jaton Video-87AGP which is a Trident 3D Image 975 chip. Supported, by all accounts, by the X Server. Ooh, I'm sorry. I've had all sorts of problems with Trident chipsets. I stay very far away from them now. Also, everybody (well,

Re: [newbie] KDE is unreadable - weird transparent windows

1999-11-02 Thread John Aldrich
On Tue, 02 Nov 1999, you wrote: Hello all, I just installed Linux-Mandrake 6.1 Power Pack and managed to get my X server configured. I am able to run startx and get into KDE. The appearance of KDE is, to say the least, weird. It's pretty much unusable. Here's whats wrong: Click on any

Re: [newbie] KDE is unreadable - weird transparent windows

1999-11-02 Thread Gregg Carrier
Click on any pop-up menu like the K menu and the menu is displayed as word only, very difficult to read against the desktop background. In other words, there's no solid window background against which one can read the words. The same is true if I open the KDE Manager. I see the frame of its

Re: [newbie] KDE is unreadable - weird transparent windows

1999-01-02 Thread Tuan Nguyen
riginal Message - From: John Aldrich [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, November 02, 1999 7:02 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] KDE is unreadable - weird transparent windows On Tue, 02 Nov 1999, you wrote: Hello all, I just installed Linux-M

Re: [newbie] KDE is unreadable - weird transparent windows

1999-01-02 Thread Pablo Monti
From: Tuan Nguyen [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, November 03, 1999 4:02 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] KDE is unreadable - weird transparent windows I am in the exact same problem. I managed to configure my X server with my video card Trident 3DImage 975.