Display Problem with GNOME Buttons - SOLVED

Steve Grace sgrace at pobox.com
Tue Oct 10 04:20:12 UTC 2006


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.






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