GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 356652
Flickering toolbar at the bottom on LiveCD
Last modified: 2007-01-15 22:49:40 UTC
Please describe the problem: When the LiveCD boots up into the GUI, the toolbar is flickering until gparted fully loads up. In addation, the window is not maximized fully; it seems to be a bit off the screen on each edge. Once gparted loads fully, the toolbar stops flickering, but the window does not maximize itself correctly until I click Maximize in the corner. My hardware is an Nvidia FX 5700LE AGP card, and a ViewSonic VA721 monitor. This happens with either 1280x1024 and 1024x768 resolutions, even though both of those resolutions have always worked for me with every other LiveCD and distro. Color depth is 24. Steps to reproduce: 1. Boot CD. 2. Select resolutions 1280x1024 or 1024x768 at the selection screen as well as 24 bit color depth. 3. Wait for the bug. Actual results: The toolbar flickers and the window is not maximized correctly. Expected results: The toolbar should not flicker and should be maximized correctly. Does this happen every time? Yes. Other information:
I know about this. Can't decide if it's fluxbox, xfce pannel, or the xorg-6.9 nv driver. It doesn't do it if you select the xvesa driver from the "extra boot options" menu. I have never seen this on any computer except my own and I too have a nVidia FX card. Hmmmm... "...and the window is not maximized correctly" Can I get a screen shot?
Created attachment 73011 [details] Screenshot
I just tried the LiveCD with XVesa and I got the same result... flashing bar until gparted starts up but not after. Considering it happened with both XVesa and nv, I'm guessing nv is not the problem. In addition, I use XFCE on this computer and have never had that problem with the panel, so I would guess it's fluxbox. An attachment at 1280x1024 and 24 bit color depth is included.
"I just tried the LiveCD with XVesa and I got the same result..." The strange thing is it didn't flicker with Xvesa on mine. Oh, well. The good news! I got it fixed! In the .fluxbox/apps file I have xfce4-panel and gparted starting at the same time. I put xfce4-panel in the .fluxbox/startup file instead and that assures xfce4-panel starts and completes loading before fluxbox even starts. GParted safely starts it's scan after all other apps are started. Once again I'm putting my foot in my mouth and blaming somebody elses flawless code. I never really bothered to fix because a thought it was just a fluke with my personal video card. I've ran this on a ton of different computers and only saw it on mine. Problem #2: Drag the bottom right hand corner of GParted until it looks good. Close gparted and then give me the ./fluxbox/apps file. It holds the parameters I need to make the window the correct size. Thanks for your help!
Yay about the first bug :). Sorry for the delay in the response, but the schoolwork called... The .fluxbox/apps file is attached for the 1280x1024 resolution. Tell me if you'd like a 1024x768 resolution file too.
Created attachment 73179 [details] apps file for 1280x1024 resolution
This is also happening when booting the livecd in qemu. The bottom toolbar will constantly resize itself.
*** Bug 375156 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Sorry, the previous duplicate notation was made in error. Please ignore.