I would like to hear from other FC1 users whether they have also encountered these events and to get some advice on how to track the causes so I can report detailed bug info to get it cleared up. The blemish: I have FC1 on a Dell i8100 and i8200, both with nvidia video using the 'nv' driver only. When Gnome starts up and the icons on the Fedora splash screen finish drawing a black bar appears over a large part of the gnome-panel (bottom-edge). It disappears after about 1-2 seconds and everything works normally afterwards. As I occasionaly use these laptops for demonstrations this does not make a very good impression. Anybody have an idea on what can be causing this or how I could find out? I have already bugzillad it (RH) but if I had more details I could also bugzilla it to the Gnome folks. The bug: The gnome-panel crashes occasionaly, seemingly at random. I have already encountered this bug on RH9, but as it only happened a few times and then just as I was shutting down from the logout menu I could not do a trace so I did not bugzilla it. Yesterday I encountered this (or a related) bug while using FC1, and this time while configuring some things. I completely forgot to make a trace and save it to disk (I didn't have email configured yet so I couldn't mail it immediately as I normally do). Has anybody else encountered this on FC1 (or testx, x=1,2,3) (I have not found a comparable bug in bugzilla). Can I still make a trace if it occurs while shutting down? The irritation: The animation when iconizing windows. There was some discussion about this a long time ago (RH8, RH9?) Quite a lot of people didn't like it. But now I no longer hear anybody complaining. Is there some secret way of turning it of that I don't know about or have people given up caring? alexander
