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waspy

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From: Sagittarius A*

Registered: 2010-12-07

Posts: 40

[SOLVED] Game window dims after a few seconds

I just updated my system and i noticed an annoying issue whenever i launch a game. For instance I tried some of the native games, and i also tried Minecraft for example, and it's the same issue with them all. It doesn't affect anything apart from the window dimming. It dims in the same way as if it was freezing, but it's obviously not freezing as they all play just fine.
Games run in DOSBox and wine work just fine without any dimming which rules out some things i guess. I'm not getting any warning or error messages in the terminal either.

Relevant info:

Arch: x86-64
WM: Openbox
Compmgr: Cairo
Gfx: Nvidia drivers (And my card is GeForce 9600GT)
Latest Java etc.. 

Edit:

I was looking around in the Cairo settings and i changed color of the 'freeze color' just to rule things out, or so i thought. It turns out Cairo thinks the games freeze for whatever reason and it dims to the freeze color. The thing is, like i said before, the game isn't freezing whatsoever. And there's no option to disable it or change transparency. And i don't wanna resort to shutting down Cairo whenever i want to play some game. I'm sure this might be a bug in the process of being fixed, but does anyone have an idea for a solution?

Edit II:

I think i found a solution to my problem. I kinda gave up on the issue, but just now i was looking for plugins for the cairo compmgr, and i saw one called 'Freeze' at the bottom of the ones i had enabled. And so i disabled that plugin and what do ya know.. It seems to have fixed my problem, and googling the issue i also found another thread here on the forums where someone got Xterm to work properly again after disabling the plugin, and i had the same issue, and even though i don't use Xterm, it works as well again.. so bottom line is, disabling the 'Freeze' plugin solved it for me.

Last edited by waspy (2012-02-22 00:57:48)

waspy

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From: Sagittarius A*

Registered: 2010-12-07

Posts: 40

Re: [SOLVED] Game window dims after a few seconds

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