On Thu, 2021-01-28 at 09:53 -0800, Jonathan Ryshpan wrote:
On Thu, 2021-01-28 at 07:49 -0800, Jonathan Ryshpan wrote:
> I've been seeing strange things on my panel for about a week or
> two. They are triangles or lines extending horizontally from a
> region of some color, narrowing to a point. They last generally
> for up to about 30 seconds. Attached is a picture of such an
> artifact (PanelArtifact.jpg), taken with my cell phone. Note the
> black stripe just above "System Information". Has anyone seen
> anything like this
>
> System: Fedora-32 all updates installed
> Processor: 4 x Intel i5 4460 CPU at 3.2 GHz
> Memory: 15.5 GiB RAM
> Video System: Xorg (not Wayland)
> Graphics: Mesa DRI Intel HD Graphics 4600
> KDE Plasma: 5.20.5
> KDE Framework: 5.78.0
Could it be a hardware issue? It has an intermittent quality that
looks like hardware trouble; but then why would the artifacts happen
only in the panel?
Continuing: It does look like a hardware issue that affects only KDE
Plasma. I see these things intermittently and only in plasma, i.e. the
desktop, the panel, and the start menu. They have become more
pronounced, often flickering between this (normal)
and this (black panel, etc)
I'm planning to replace the CPU intel i5-4460 with an intel i7-4790.
Let's see it it makes a difference.