[Pkg-xfce-devel] Bug#473347: Bug#473347: Bug#473347: Bug#473347: xfwm4: Redraw bugs when switching workspaces with overlapping sticky windows

Yves-Alexis Perez corsac at debian.org
Tue Apr 29 05:57:35 UTC 2008


On lun, 2008-04-28 at 18:58 -0400, Dylan Thurston wrote:
> On Mon, Apr 28, 2008 at 05:36:03PM +0200, Yves-Alexis Perez wrote:
> > On Mon, Apr 28, 2008 at 03:27:36PM +0000, Dylan Thurston wrote:
> > > On Mon, Apr 28, 2008 at 05:15:52PM +0200, Yves-Alexis Perez wrote:
> > > > xfwm4 doesn't use 3D accel for compositing. Can you check, both in xorg.conf
> > > > and in wm tweaks, please?
> > > 
> > > I've attached my xorg.conf for this bug, and 'Enable display
> > > compositing' is unchecked in the wm tweaks xfce settings dialog.
> > 
> > Meaning that compositing is enabled in xorg.conf :)
> > Can you try disabling it?
> 
> I'm trying this now.  Reproducing the bug is not quite reliable so I'm
> not yet sure, but I haven't been able to trigger it yet.  This
> suggests that the bug only occurs when compositing IS enabled in
> xorg.conf and is NOT enabled in xfce.

If you can confirm this, could you try with:

- using EXA instead of XAA in xorg.conf (I know you may have good
reasons to use XAA, but just in case)
- use export XLIB_SKIP_ARGB_VISUALS=1 before running xfce4-terminal.

This looks like a problem with RGBA window (like xfce4-terminal) to me.

Cheers,
-- 
Yves-Alexis
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