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BSprague

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Registered: 2014-04-09

Posts: 6

Screen refresh issues in urxvt

Recently I've been running into issues with urxvt not updating portions of the screen. It's most noticeable in Vim, where the bottom-half of the screen will sometimes take a second or more to update after I've moved the cursor, but I've also caught it happening in other terminal applications. I'm running on a Dell XPS 9550 with a quad-core i7, 16 GB RAM, and an NVIDIA 960M graphics card (controlled with bumblebee). Needless to say, console applications shouldn't lag the way they are. I'm running rxvt-unicode-patched from AUR. I don't think I've always had this problem, but I don't know what changed to cause it.

.Xresources

URxvt*font: xft:Inconsolata:size=11
URxvt.scrollBar: false
URxvt.intensityStyles: false
URxvt.depth: 32
URxvt.urgentOnBell: true

! Colorscheme stuff

.Xinitrc

export _JAVA_AWT_WM_NONREPARENTING=1

feh --bg-fill ~/Files/BG.jpg
[[ -f ~/.Xresources ]] && xrdb -merge ~/.Xresources

setxkbmap -option caps:swapescape

xsetroot -cursor_name left_ptr
sxhkd &
exec bspwm

Relevant packages

$ pacman -Q nvidia
nvidia 370.28-1

$ pacman -Q bumblebee 
bumblebee 3.2.1-12

$ pacman -Qs intel
local/lib32-mesa 12.0.3-3
    an open-source implementation of the OpenGL specification (32-bit)
local/mesa 12.0.3-3
    an open-source implementation of the OpenGL specification
local/xf86-video-intel 1:2.99.917+713+geb01cc5-1 (xorg-drivers xorg)
    X.org Intel i810/i830/i915/945G/G965+ video drivers

Trilby

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Registered: 2011-11-29

Posts: 29,525

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Re: Screen refresh issues in urxvt

Are you setting TERM somewhere in one of your shell rc files?  What is the output of `echo $TERM`?

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BSprague

Member

Registered: 2014-04-09

Posts: 6

Re: Screen refresh issues in urxvt

$ echo $TERM
rxvt-unicode-256color

zagitta

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Registered: 2016-04-28

Posts: 1

Re: Screen refresh issues in urxvt

I have a very similar setup (XPS 9350) and have the same problem. For me the issue goes away if I kill compton but I'm unsure if that's the root cause or not because it used to work fine with compton.

ewaller

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From: Pasadena, CA

Registered: 2009-07-13

Posts: 19,785

Re: Screen refresh issues in urxvt

Are you, by chance, running Wayland instead of Xorg?   Gnome relentlessly broke a bunch of stuff by switching to that steaming little pile of fun by default.

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BSprague

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Registered: 2014-04-09

Posts: 6

Re: Screen refresh issues in urxvt

Nope not running Wayland or Gnome. Haven't tried killing compton as a solution, but for obvious reasons I'd prefer not to.

seth

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Registered: 2012-09-03

Posts: 51,151

Re: Screen refresh issues in urxvt

And everyone else will prefer to know whether compton is a relevant part here ... :-P
Ie. kill it for knowledge.

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woodape

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Registered: 2015-03-25

Posts: 159

Re: Screen refresh issues in urxvt

I don't have a solution but I've been having the same problem as well. Running bspwm with compton. Killing compton also stopped the problem. I've been fiddling with my compton settings (not 100% certain what I'm doing, more of exploratory surgery) but haven't been able to correct the issue.