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pixelou

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Registered: 2011-03-30

Posts: 18

[SOLVED]Windows won't refresh unless clicked (any GUI, i915)

Hi everyone,

I have a problem with my graphical applications: their content is not updated/redrawn/refreshed/repainted unless I click inside or some event triggers refresh.
For example, in pcmanfm, opening a folder gives an empty folder, but hovering or selecting the content area makes the icons appear. In skype, I need to click in the chat window to refresh the content, and similarily in Matlab.
As far as I can tell, it is not related to some GUI library since java, qt4 and gtk are affected.

Some applications such as firefox, thunderbird or lxterminal are not affected.

My window manager is i3 but I have tried openbox and the problem remains.
I have not noticed the issue when the system is freshly started, but it happens after a while...

Any help would be very welcome,
thanks,

Last edited by pixelou (2015-06-26 15:51:35)

The Loko

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From: Spain

Registered: 2014-07-23

Posts: 103

Re: [SOLVED]Windows won't refresh unless clicked (any GUI, i915)

Are you using any compositor? What graphic drivers?

pixelou

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Registered: 2011-03-30

Posts: 18

Re: [SOLVED]Windows won't refresh unless clicked (any GUI, i915)

Hi The Loko,
I don't have any compositors and I am using intel i915 driver.
Here is my .xinitrc if that might be of any interest:

export QT_STYLE_OVERRIDE=gtk
export _JAVA_OPTIONS='-Dawt.useSystemAAFontSettings=lcd -Dswing.aatext=true -Dswing.defaultlaf=com.sun.java.swing.plaf.gtk.GTKLookAndFeel -Dswing.crossplatformlaf=com.sun.java.swing.plaf.gtk.GTKLookAndFeel'
setxkbmap fr
xss-lock -- i3lock -i ~/Downloads/theme/happy_birthday.png &
exec i3 -V >> /tmp/i3log 2>&1
exec tilda &

pixelou

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Registered: 2011-03-30

Posts: 18

Re: [SOLVED]Windows won't refresh unless clicked (any GUI, i915)

also here is the content of /etc/modprobe.d/i915.conf, which I haven't changed for a long time:

options i915 enable_rc6=1 enable_fbc=1 lvds_downclock=1

ooo

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Registered: 2013-04-10

Posts: 1,638

Re: [SOLVED]Windows won't refresh unless clicked (any GUI, i915)

I'm having similar display artifacts (some area of the screen not updating) on my intel system with gnome-shell, but it only happens occasionally for example after leaving a full screen window, so it doesn't bother me that much.

However I'm pretty sure SNA render acceleration is the root of this issue. Did you try if switching to glamor or UXA works any better?

pixelou

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Registered: 2011-03-30

Posts: 18

Re: [SOLVED]Windows won't refresh unless clicked (any GUI, i915)

I have followed https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/In … SNA_issues and the problem has stopped.
Thank you very much ooo.