GTK / Gnome / Epiphany / not repainting text areas in web browser

tmsimont · 2016-09-16 00:46:30

Sometimes, not always... I will be editing text in a text area in a web browser, and the background starts showing some crazy colors and shapes.

This does always happen on github.com

I see this kind of thing happen:

http://i.imgur.com/amHknQz.png

On the github site, I will select text and a blue color appears to show my selection. Then, when I un-select text, the background doesn't fully clear that color, and often takes on those angular sides, or puts similar looking shapes anywhere in the text area.

I get a lot of odd and inconsistent behavior with background shapes and colors when I select text and then un-select, or sometimes these things appear as I simply type.

When I use jupyter (ipython notebook) I see green, angular boxes flash in and out as I type:

http://i.imgur.com/f9HHd1W.png

(notice the green shape behind the code window, with the angular corner in the bottom right)

It seems like either GTK, Gnome or Epiphany might be having some kind of issue.

I should note that I've also got Bumblebee running on here to try to get my "switchable graphics" card working along side my NVidia Geforce. I don't think that the NVidia card is used for Epiphany, but I'm not sure how to know for sure. I thought that with Bumblebee, I'd have to explicitly tell an application to use the Nvidia GPU over the intel graphics card.

Interestingly, the text area here on archlinux forum doesn't have the problem. It could be related to the dropshadow effect that github has.

GTK version 3.20.9
GDK backend X11GL Version GLX 1.4
GL Vendor Mesa project and SGI

Any ideas on what could be causing this? Or at least where I could start debugging something like this?

Last edited by jasonwryan (2016-09-16 00:49:01)

jasonwryan · 2016-09-16 00:49:36

Please read the Code of Conduct and only post thumbnails http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Cod … s_and_code

..and try changing your theme.

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GTK / Gnome / Epiphany / not repainting text areas in web browser

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Re: GTK / Gnome / Epiphany / not repainting text areas in web browser

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