Well, after decades of KDE my solution was:
dnf groupinstall Xfce
Xfce works
On Tue, Aug 11, 2015 at 3:14 PM, Rich Emberson <emberson.r...@gmail.com>
wrote:
> Upgraded from F20 KDE environment using
> fedup --network 22 --product=nonproduct
>
> and X/KDE has rendering/refresh/redraw issues.
> Application widgets and KDE pop menus are not draw, or,
> at best some edge or corner is drawn. In an xterm,
> the line being entered is drawn, but nothing else -
> move the window and the content disappears.
>
> System description at bottom.
>
> Information points:
> 1) With F20, KDE worked fine on this machine.
> 2) Upgraded KDE system has above rendering issues
> 3) Remotely logging into broken system and launching X application
> which displays on remote machine works just fine.
> 4) Booting from a F22 KDE Live dvd has *SAME* rendering issue.
> 5) Booting from a F22 Gnome Workstation Live dvd has *NO* rendering
> issues.
>
> Information point 2: Seems to imply that the X.org SW is working fine; the
> X protocol (X <-> app) is good.
> Information point 4: Yea, the F22 Workstation dvd seems to work.
>
> Question: Do the two Live dvds (KDE and Gnome) use the same nouveau driver?
>
> If the two dvds use the same nouveau driver, then
> it might be argued that its a KDE issue.
>
> The machine has a Nvidia graphics board, but it is not being used;
> was not used with F20 KDE and not being used for broken F22 KDE.
>
> So, if it is a KDE issue (on this particular machine) then what to do?
> In particular, it looks like on this machine I will be using Gnome
> or some other window manager but not KDE for F22.
>
> Options:
> 1) Attempt to use Nvidia graphics on broken F22 KDE machine.
> There are many sites that describe how to disable nouveau
> and enable Nvidia. But, 1) there does not seem to be a site
> specifically addressing what to do when using F22 and 2) the sites
> are not consistent (use rpmfusion vs Nvidia site for driver,
> what needs to be done to disable nouveau (grub/blacklist,...), etc.).
> Also, there is no guarantee that a KDE rendering issue will be
> fixed by switching to Nvidia card.
>
> 2) Attempt to install F22 Workstation on existing broken F22 KDE machine.
> If one uses the F22 Gnome Workstation dvd to "install to harddrive"
> will it allow you to select which disk to install on
> (my /home has already been backed up)?
> I assume this will set Gnome as the desktop into which the system
> boots.
> Or, is there some dnf command which will install the Workstation
> so that the system boots into Gnome.
>
> 3) Re-install F20 (KDE) and then upgrade to F22 Workstation.
> This is the most time consuming, but it appears to be rather
> straight forward.
>
> install F20 from dvd
> fedup --network 22 --product=workstation
>
> Question: Which option above is the most likely to succeed?
>
> Question: Once the system is working as F22 Gnome Workstation, can I then
> install and try out other window managers (e.g., xfce)?
>
>
> Advice sought.
> Thanks
>
> Richard
>
> System:
> > uname -a
> Linux olympia 4.1.3-201.fc22.x86_64 #1 SMP Wed Jul 29 19:50:22 UTC
> 2015 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux
>
> hardware (board, cpu, Nvidia graphics board (not used), etc.)
> # /sbin/lshw -c display
> *-display
> description: VGA compatible controller
> product: G73 [GeForce 7300 GT]
> vendor: NVIDIA Corporation
> physical id: 0
> bus info: pci at 0000:01:00.0
> version: a1
> width: 64 bits
> clock: 33MHz
> capabilities: pm msi pciexpress vga_controller bus_master
> cap_listrom
> configuration: driver=nouveau latency=0
> resources: irq:29 memory:fd000000-fdffffff
> memory:d0000000-dfffffff
> memory:fc000000-fcffffff ioport:bc00(size=128)
> memory:fe8e0000-fe8fffff
> Display driver
> > rpm -qa --qf '%{NAME} %{VERSION}-%{RELEASE} %{ARCH}\n' | grep nouv
> xorg-x11-drv-nouveau 1.0.11-2.fc22 x86_64
> X.org software
> libX11 1.6.3-1.fc22 x86_64
> xorg-x11-server-Xorg 1.17.2-2.fc22 x86_64
> etc.
> Desktop (KDE, Gnome, etc.)
> kde-runtime-libs 15.04.2-1.fc22 x86_64
> kde-runtime 15.04.2-1.fc22 x86_64
> etc.
> Monitor
> Early on, I swapped out the monitor to a different one and still
> got the same problem
>
>
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