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[SOLVED] Applications blanking out

siawacsh

Mon May 27, 2013 1:15:36 pm

Having played around with desktop themes I now am experiencing that each time I click on an application be it a browser, thunderbird, kazam etc, I end up with a blank screen as in the attached screenshots. The first screenshot shows what I get on the first click. When I click a second time I get the what should be displaying.

I appreciate your feedback.

siawacsh

Wolfman

Mon May 27, 2013 1:56:24 pm

Hi,

I assume you have an Nvidia card, please take a look here:

viewtopic.php?f=5&t=2490

Regards Wolfman :D

siawacsh

Mon May 27, 2013 3:31:31 pm

Hello, I did the fix for Zorin 6. The only indication I have that my distro is version 6 and not 7 is that it did not accept my version 7 keyring. Is there anyother way to confirm this? I think it is a bit early to say it fixed the problem, but good so far. And a big thank you.

siawacsh

Mon May 27, 2013 4:06:37 pm

A quick question. I am using the nVIDIA GeForce GTX 280M 1GB GDDR3. I am currently using the recommended driver. Can you adivse on which one optimizes my hardware?

Thanks
s

Wolfman

Mon May 27, 2013 5:21:44 pm

Hi,

if you installed via the PPA I posted in the Nvidia link above; you are good to go!!.

Regards Wolfman :D

siawacsh

Mon May 27, 2013 7:02:15 pm

I am supposing by the PPA you mean software center. I installed zorin ISO via your repositories to USB key live.

Thanks
siawacsh

Wolfman

Mon May 27, 2013 7:17:32 pm

Hi,

yes I meant the drivers from the Nvidia PPA, you have Zorin 6 installed not Zorin 7, Z6 is based on Ubuntu 12.04 and Z7 on U13.04.

See also:

viewtopic.php?f=5&t=4647&p=22015#p22015

Can we mark this as solved?.

Regards Wolfman :D

siawacsh

Tue May 28, 2013 12:09:39 pm

Yes, you can.