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

[Jan Capek]

Yves-Alexis Perez wrote:
> 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
Oops, I have NOW explicitely disabled compositing and the redraw issues 
are gone. Well, I think you can close this issue. I am attaching a 
working configuration file for xorg, so that anybody having this probe 
is able to find a solution to it.
> 
>> 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 :(
I hate proprietary hardware, too..
> 
> Cheers,
Thanks a lot for support,

Jan


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