[Pkg-xfce-devel] Bug#466687: Bug#466687: Bug#466687: Bug#466687: xfce4: windows are not being redrawn correctly when moving - nv/nvidia driver Xinerama, dualhead

[Simon Huggins]

On Thu, Feb 21, 2008 at 06:21:12PM +0100, Jan Capek wrote:
> Yves-Alexis Perez wrote:
> >On Wed, Feb 20, 2008 at 03:55:44PM +0000, Jan Capek wrote:
> >>>Can you retry this with the nv or vesa driver? Is compositing enabled?
> >>I will try w/ the above drivers if I get them to work. Nv doesn't seem 
> >>to work with xinerama. Compositing is not enabled.
> >
> >Make sure compositing is disabled in xorg.conf. (if the "Compositor" tab
> >appears in the Window Manager tweaks you need to disable it manually).
> >
> >>>Can you retry without xinerama too?
> >>This is already with xinerama.
> >
> >I asked you to try _without_.
> Disabling xinerama 'solves' the problem however at that point I am stuck 
> with 2 independent screens that are not of much use for me.

> I am not sure, maybe I should file a bug somewhere in the 'nv', 'nvidia' 
> driver area. However, this bug seems to trigger with xfce4 only.

Given you can't reproduce it with the nv driver, you're probably best
off talking to upstream via:
http://bugzilla.xfce.org
(feel free to mark this bug as forwarded there when you have submitted
one).

I'm surprised that noone else has reported this though.  Nvidia cards
aren't rare.

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