Hello all,

I am running Kubuntu 12.04 LTS which includes KDE 4.8.5. When I launch some applications (not all), they stay flashing in the taskbar even after they are launched and I click on then. They will stay flashing forever. I have the Oxygen theme and they keep flashing white which is very distracting. I've tried to disable notifications but nothing fixes the problem. Does anyone know what might be wrong?

maybe this bug https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=275835

upgrading would be a good thing to do, changing themes might stop the flashing though the calls for attention (which I assume it is) might just be a different effect

Thanks - that does seem to be the issue (or at least one very similar). It seems to be fixed in KDE 4.11. Unfortunately I cannot upgrade Kubuntu as I must stay on the LTS version. I'm relatively new to Linux - is there an easy way to upgrade KDE while staying on this version of Kubuntu, or is that just asking for trouble? If it will be too risky I can live with the blinking.

I don't see any newer Kubuntu offical KDE packages for 12.04 and I looked at the updates and backports repositories.

try closing and then re-opening the flashing apps sometimes that fixes it as should clicking on the opened app window