I've got this artefact on my screen. Any idea on how to remove it?

Jajamd · 05-01-2013, 01:53 PM

Hello guys,

I've got what I would call an "artefact" on my screen that won't go away (bottom right). It's slowing everything down. I've got so many tasks running that I can't afford to reboot right now. It probably appears after some application crashed. I can't remember which one.
Any idea how to solve this problem?

small size: http://img11.hostingpics.net/thumbs/...78snapshot.jpg
original: http://img11.hostingpics.net/pics/847678snapshot.jpg

Cheers !

(openSuse 11.4, KDE4.6)

JackDeth · 05-01-2013, 06:30 PM

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Originally Posted by Jajamd

Hello guys,

I've got what I would call an "artefact" on my screen that won't go away (bottom right). It's slowing everything down. I've got so many tasks running that I can't afford to reboot right now. It probably appears after some application crashed. I can't remember which one.
Any idea how to solve this problem?

small size: http://img11.hostingpics.net/thumbs/...78snapshot.jpg
original: http://img11.hostingpics.net/pics/847678snapshot.jpg

Cheers !

(openSuse 11.4, KDE4.6)

Have you tried using the system monitor tool to kill the task running in the background?

Jajamd · 05-02-2013, 12:28 AM

Well, I used "top" and "ps ax" but I can't seem to see what's causing this... :/

Jajamd · 05-02-2013, 05:17 AM

Case closed. I found which app was causing the problem and force-killed it

Cheers !

pan64 · 05-02-2013, 05:21 AM

probably xkill could have been used in your case, but too late to check it. Just in case you need it again....
http://www.xfree86.org/current/xkill.1.html
And please mark the thread solved...