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

[Yves-Alexis Perez]

On Wed, Feb 27, 2008 at 04:02:12PM +0000, Jan Capek wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Yves-Alexis Perez wrote:
> > On jeu, 2008-02-21 at 18:21 +0100, Jan Capek wrote:
> >> Disabling xinerama 'solves' the problem however at that point I am
> >> stuck 
> >> with 2 independent screens that are not of much use for me.
> > 
> > Ok.
> >> 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.
> > 
> > Well, could you try in metacity or openbox, wich support xinerama pretty
> > well?
> I have tested with openbox. This allowed me identifying the problem a
> little bit further. The issue is still reproducable in openbox when I
> use the xfce4-terminal there. Further, I have noticed that when dragging 
> any other windows over this terminal their decorations get damaged, too. 
> Now I am quite sure that this is nvidia driver problem. There has to be 
> some window redrawing function that xfce4 uses that triggers this bug.
> Should this still be reported to xfce4 bts to work around for broken 
> nvidia drivers?

Well, the xfce4-terminal thingy looks like a problem in compositing (or maybe
in vte). I know that I've asked multiple times yet, but is compositing
deactivated in xorg.conf? Like:

Section "Extensions" 
	Option "Composite" "Disable" 
EndSection

> I would be more happy if there was some working solution for dualhead 
> for nVidia GeForce 6200 so that I wouldn't have to use the proprietary 
> driver. But as of now, I didn't find any, so I have struggle with this bug.

Yup, that's the problem with crappy proprietary and non documented hardware :(

Cheers,
-- 
Yves-Alexis