[Solved] Enlightenment e17 - Black boxes

I've seen a few mentions of what might be this problem elsewhere, but haven't found any real information.
I'm using community/e-svn with extra/nvidia and compositing enabled. I'm getting unwanted black boxes appear where various effects are happening. For instance, right clicking a webpage in firefox opens a menu which uses a grow animation - starts as a horizontal line and grows larger vertically, which works fine, but simultaneously a black rectangle fades in behind the menu, shown in progress here
Likewise, tooltips show an ugly black box just before they appear
The enlightenment menus themselves dont seem to suffer from this issue, so perhaps it's a configuration problem?
Any suggestions?
Edit:
Tracked down the rasterman in #e on freenode, apparently there is a misconfiguration in the default compositor settings. I removed the 'fullscreen' style from the advanced view in settings panel/look/composite settings and this fixed the problem.
Last edited by voxel (2012-09-10 10:49:34)

1. I am not sure about your mouse problem
2. The new update for some reason switches the channel. You will have to click on the speaker icon at the bottom and go into settings and change it to the front speaker, also make sure the lock sliders is checked.
3. I have not found a way to do this, but you can have different launchers start on each desktop here are two resources for more tweaks
http://pclosmag.com/html/Issues/201012/page10.html
http://www.bodhilinux.com/e17guide/e17g … ktops.html
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