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LordAnarchist

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Registered: 2018-06-06

Posts: 14

[i3] Strange graphical problem (grey bars)

Hello people

Since I started using i3 I'm experiencing a strange "bug".
This happens every time I have for example two buffers opened and swipe them using $mod + Shift + arrow keys. (check the pic)

https://imgur.com/a/BSLOeCR

These bars disappear when I refresh i3 using $mod + Shift + r

I'm using an Intel processor with Nvidia GPU, I changed the drivers to Nvidia proprietary because I heard nouveau was causing lot of troubles and installed intel-ucode for my cpu.

I didn't find anything similar to this here, so I decided to open my own issue, hope somebody can help me

seth

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Registered: 2012-09-03

Posts: 51,213

Re: [i3] Strange graphical problem (grey bars)

Is this limited to particular clients (like chromium, the terminals and the desktop seem unaffected? Or what about the dislocated tokens in the upmost terminal?)
What if you add

Option	"UseNvKmsCompositionPipeline" "false"

to the nvidia Device section in xorg.conf[.d/*]?

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LordAnarchist

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Registered: 2018-06-06

Posts: 14

Re: [i3] Strange graphical problem (grey bars)

Is this limited to particular clients (like chromium, the terminals and the desktop seem unaffected? Or what about the dislocated tokens in the upmost terminal?)
What if you add

Option	"UseNvKmsCompositionPipeline" "false"

to the nvidia Device section in xorg.conf[.d/*]?

Hello,
thanks for the reply,
I actually don't have a xorg.conf file, should I create one in the /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/ directory that already exists on my machine?

Also yes all programs may be affected, it just happens randomly when I move tiling windows...

seth

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Registered: 2012-09-03

Posts: 51,213

Re: [i3] Strange graphical problem (grey bars)

/etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/20-nvidia.conf

    Identifier "Default nvidia Device"
    Driver	"nvidia"
    Option	"NoLogo"				"True" # no spam
    Option	"CoolBits"				"24" # more options in nvidia-settings
    Option	"UseNvKmsCompositionPipeline" "false" # this is the important one

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LordAnarchist

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Registered: 2018-06-06

Posts: 14

Re: [i3] Strange graphical problem (grey bars)

/etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/20-nvidia.conf

    Identifier "Default nvidia Device"
    Driver	"nvidia"
    Option	"NoLogo"				"True" # no spam
    Option	"CoolBits"				"24" # more options in nvidia-settings
    Option	"UseNvKmsCompositionPipeline" "false" # this is the important one

So if I correctly understood I create this file and write the lines you gave me to it, then reboot?

seth

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Registered: 2012-09-03

Posts: 51,213

Re: [i3] Strange graphical problem (grey bars)

You don't have to reboot - restarting the X11 server will do.

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