Anyone seen this type of display corruption? (icewm titlebar) - gutsy/i386

debian debiani386 at gmail.com
Fri Jan 25 23:48:19 UTC 2008


On Sun, 2008-01-20 at 17:16 +0000, Tim Southerwood wrote:
> [also posted to the ICEWM mailing lists]
> 
> http://www.dionic.net/screen-icewm-broken.png
> 
> I only get this with IceWM; KDE and Gnome work fine.
> 
> System is a Pentium 4 3GHz, Nvidia Geforce 7600, xorg 7.2,
> nvidia proprietary driver 1.0-9639 based off an Ubuntu 7.10 Gusty
> distro.
> 
> I've spent a night on this and been all over google. Tried various
> options in xorg.conf such as turning these on and off:
> 
> [Device]
> ...
>     Option      "RenderAccel"  "True"
>     Option      "AllowGLXWithComposite"    "True"
>     Option      "AddARGBVisuals" "True"
>     Option      "AddARGBGLXVisuals" "True"
> 
> 
> Tried 16 bit colordepth, same problem. Same hardware was working fine
> with Ubuntu 7.04 Feisty.
> 
> Some themes, notably ones with flat colours seem to render fine, others
> with colour gradients such as IceQua (the one in the example screenshot)
> are totally mashed. What seems to be happening is some parts of the
> titlebar are rendered transparent, as can be seen if moving the window
> around.
> 
> Also, the mouse cannot "grab" the titlebar on a transparent patch.
> 
> This seems to me to be at a higher level than the graphics driver,
> especially as I can grab a matching screenshot in gimp (or am I talking
> b*llocks?).
> 
> No other video corruption is noted and googleearth works fine.
> 
> TIA :)
> 
> Cheers
> 
> Tim

Yes i have gotten display corruption with ice AND fluxbox. Enlightenment
works fine too just fyi

--cj
> 





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