hi.

lately since the new install of my linux distros i have been noticing something that is a minor problem but it is very annoying.

if i start up an application and use it for a bit, then close or minimize it, it appears ghosted or burnt in on my desktop wallpaper over top of new applications that i begin to run. It doesn't go away even after a fresh restart, in fact at the loading splash the ghost image has been known to show up slightly there too before i even enter my desktop environment.

I have tried and have had the same thing with Fedora LXDE, and im now using openSUSE 11.3 LXDE. I have tried KDE too but same thing. This is all happening on my gateway laptop which i have some sort of an ATI video card in it.

Anyways its annoying and I was just wondering if someone could help me find out why its doing this so maybe i can fix it or something.

does it show when the screen is completely off?

no it doesn't, it seems that this computer hates linux, if i put windows back on it it runs like it is supposed to although previous versions of linux never use to do this...

another thing i noticed, i tried to use PrtScrn and its weird that the images arent including the problem that im describing into them...this is odd...

which leaves either monitor or video card as the issue most likely

What monitor are you using? What specific ATI video card?

If you plan on completely switching back to windows because of a cosmetic issue that you have yet to troubleshoot, I'm afraid I can't afford any sympathy.

Are you using desktop effects (Compiz Fusion)? It might be that the "close window" animation's last frame isn't completing, and is never drawn over by the desktop. Can you "smear" it away by dragging a window over the "ghost" image? If so, it's probably a video problem. Try turning off desktop effects if they're not already on.

its a fresh install of opensuse lxde 11.3 so nothing like compiz was used or installed. And its a laptop as for the monitor/ati question. The ATI graphics is an ATI RV250Lf or something... thats what the YaST hardware info is telling me... Soo i figure that im just gonna go back an install and run 11.2, that worked fine in the past.. im pretty sure that this is a graphics rendering problem and/or a driver issue? Thanks everyone.