towards 4.9.4

[Dirk Hohndel]

On Sun, 2020-04-12 at 22:14 +0200, Berthold Stoeger wrote:
> On Sonntag, 12. April 2020 21:10:35 CEST Dirk Hohndel wrote:
> > > On Apr 12, 2020, at 12:01 PM, Linus Torvalds
> > > <torvalds at linux-foundation.org> wrote:
> > > 
> > > On Sun, Apr 12, 2020 at 11:51 AM Berthold Stoeger via subsurface
> > > 
> > > <subsurface at subsurface-divelog.org> wrote:
> > > > If I do a "su" into the other user I get the garbled version.
> > > > 
> > > > If I do a "su -" into the other user I get the sensible
> > > > version.
> > > 
> > > I _think_ the main difference should be just your environment.
> > > 
> > > So you can do "printenv" for both cases and see if something
> > > stands out.
> > > 
> > > Although it's likely something indirect that just ends up meaning
> > > that
> > > one version uses your old settings, and the other one doesn't.
> > 
> > Yes, if you 'su -' then you actually log in as that person, use
> > their HOME
> > path, etc, vs with 'su' you still have your current environment.
> > All this means is that there is indeed something that we stored in
> > the
> > preferences that garbles the screen.
> > 
> > More to add to the todo list.
> 
> I can reproduce this now. It depends on the "Application Style" in
> the KDE 
> settings:
>  Breeze -> bad
>  Fusion -> good
>  MS Windows 9x -> not good, not totally bad.
>  Oxygen -> bad
> 


OMG. Because getting the UI right across Windows, Mac and Linux wasn't
bad enough...

Thanks for figuring that one out. Now all we need is someone to
actually figure out what we need to do to fix things.

I love Linux on the desktop :-/

/D