Flickering drop down boxes on mouse over

[Geert Janssens]

On Wednesday 30 December 2015 13:14:09 Mike Evans wrote:
> On Wed, 30 Dec 2015 09:40:48 +0100
> 
> Geert Janssens <geert.gnucash at kobaltwit.be> wrote:
> > On Monday 28 December 2015 15:12:26 Mike Evans wrote:
> > > The dropdown selection boxes in a register or invoice view
> > > flicker, as if they're having multiple refreshes, each time the
> > > mouse pointer enters or leaves the box. Has anyone else
> > > experienced this? I'm Using Fedora18 32 bit OS.  I'm not quite
> > > sure when this started, several weeks or so. Just asking here
> > > before I file a bug just in case it's not GnuCash but some other
> > > system glitch.
> > > 
> > > Mike E
> > 
> > I only got to testing this now.
> > 
> > I'm seeing this as well on Fedora 22, 64bit.
> > 
> > I never noticed this before because I'm usually using keyboard
> > navigation in the register views.
> > 
> > Geert
> 
> It appears this is related to display settings in KDE, at least in my
> case it is.  Logging out and in using the failsafe options, in which
> I just get an xterm, GnuCash doesn't have this issue. Neither does my
> laptop running PCLinuxOS and KDE.
> 
> I'm just remembering that some months ago KDE screwed up my settings
> (again) amongst the issues was the disappearance lots of icons. My
> usual recovery method is deleting .kde directory and starting again.
> I'm thinking that this is about the time the trouble started. I also
> note that the button to activate the dropdown is round not square
> like it used to be and on my laptop. Somewhere in my
> settings/themes/appearance setup there's probably a way to bring some
> sanity back to the desktop settings. Somewhere...
> 
> Mike E

If you find it, please share on the list so I can fix it here as well :)

Geert