Re: Alt-tab flashes differently between work and home

[Rogue <roguexz gmail com>]

Hi Mark,

Mark Hull-Richter wrote:
> I have CentOS 5 on both my work and home machines, with Gnome 2.16.0
> (default, straight out of the box, so to speak).  At work I have two
> 17" FP monitors on an ATI FireGL V3400, at home I have one 19" CRT on
> an nVidia GeForce7100gs.
>
> When I use alt-tab to switch windows at work, the border of the window
> that is the current target of the switch flashes black - this is fine.
>  At home, the whole window goes black.  I'd like to change this to
> flash just the border at home, but . . . how?
>
>   
I have seen the very same issue on my laptop and figured it to being a 
misconfiguration of the Xorg.conf file. In my case, I have a ATI 
mobility card on my laptop. I had installed the ATI drivers and also had 
the module DRI enabled in my xorg.conf file (search for Section Module). 
I checked the log files and noticed that the ATI module was loading its 
own version of DRI and that the additional entry in the xorg.conf file 
was causing this problem

Since your graphics card is different, I would suggest looking at the 
X11 log files and checking for errors. Hope that info helps you out.

later,
Rogue
> I've tried looking around for a setting for this and I can't find one,
> but I'm stabbing in the dark - even google doesn't give me anything,
> although the searches I've tried might have been off-base.
>
> Any suggestions?
>
>