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yochaigal

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From: Boston

Registered: 2011-02-06

Posts: 202

Tooltip corruption in Chrome

Arch Linux 64bit on a X1 Carbon (4th gen)  with HD Graphics 520 video card. I use XFCE as my desktop environment.
Within Chrome, I am seeing a graphical glitch in some tooltips (it seems random). Here is an example from xkcd's website:

Please note that this does not happen in Firefox, or any other GTK application (including GIMP). It doesn't happen on all tooltips, but on every 2 or 3. This happens with Compton disabled as well as while it is running.
I've tried changing themes, as well as manually editing the tooltip color settings in ~/g.tkrc-2.0 (color changes to whatever I put there, but but corruption stays). I've also set Chrome to use native GTK theme with no changes.

I found this mesa bug that might be related.

Any ideas?

Thanks

Last edited by yochaigal (2016-12-16 00:57:11)

x33a

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Registered: 2009-08-15

Posts: 4,587

Re: Tooltip corruption in Chrome

@yochaigal, see the policy about posting pictures at: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Co … s_and_code

Moving the thread to "Applications and Desktop Environments".

On topic,

the bug you linked to suggests setting LIBGL_ALWAYS_SOFTWARE=1. Have you tried that?

yochaigal

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From: Boston

Registered: 2011-02-06

Posts: 202

Re: Tooltip corruption in Chrome

I made the image smaller than 50kb.

Last edited by yochaigal (2016-12-14 18:32:09)

yochaigal

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From: Boston

Registered: 2011-02-06

Posts: 202

Re: Tooltip corruption in Chrome

On topic,

the bug you linked to suggests setting LIBGL_ALWAYS_SOFTWARE=1. Have you tried that?

Yes, running "env LIBGL_ALWAYS_SOFTWARE=1 google-chrome-stable" seems to solve the problem, but graphics are quite glitchy as a result (scrolling is pretty bad).

Thanks.

Last edited by yochaigal (2016-12-16 00:56:56)

x33a

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Registered: 2009-08-15

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Re: Tooltip corruption in Chrome

I don't really have much to offer. Perhaps try changing Intel graphics acceleration method to uxa. If that doesn't work, perhaps give the modesetting driver a try.

https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Intel_graphics

seth

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Registered: 2012-09-03

Posts: 73,883

Re: Tooltip corruption in Chrome

please provide glxinfo and xorg log, for a start

> This happens with Compton [...]
Doesn't xfce come with its own compositor?

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yochaigal

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From: Boston

Registered: 2011-02-06

Posts: 202

Re: Tooltip corruption in Chrome

GLXINFO

Xorg

Not an XFCE user, I take it? The XFCE compositor has pretty bad tearing. Transparency is pretty bad, as well. Compton is an excellent alternative.

ataraxia

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From: Pittsburgh

Registered: 2007-05-06

Posts: 1,553

Re: Tooltip corruption in Chrome

I see this problem with Chrome / Chromium is basically any DE or WM, across multiple distros. It seems to be an actual bug in the browser.

yochaigal

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From: Boston

Registered: 2011-02-06

Posts: 202

Re: Tooltip corruption in Chrome

I do not have this issue on my two other Arch machines (which I use with equal measure). Both have nVidia GPUs.

Enverex

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From: UK

Registered: 2007-06-13

Posts: 159

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Re: Tooltip corruption in Chrome

Just chiming in that this is still an issue. I have the problem on my Intel netbook (HD520 GPU as well). Using the modesetting XOrg driver.

As OP says, it only seems to affect tooltips in Chrome, nothing else.

V1del

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Registered: 2012-10-16

Posts: 25,085

Re: Tooltip corruption in Chrome

Don't necrobump old posts with no new information, follow https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/is … ?id=442111 unless that bug is marked as fixed it's likely to still be an issue. (Hint: Chrome and all chrome/electron based apps (Atom, the new Skype e.g.) will suffer from this since Chrome doesn't use native GTK but their own toolkit implementation.)

Francewhoa

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From: Sept-Iles, Quebec, Canada

Registered: 2023-01-21

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Re: Tooltip corruption in Chrome

Same challenge here with a 2024 version of browser ungoogled-chromium

We found a fix at https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php … 9#p2169419

V1del

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Registered: 2012-10-16

Posts: 25,085

Re: Tooltip corruption in Chrome

Please don't necrobump 8 year old threads. Chances that what you are seeing has the same implications as it was 8 years ago are very slim, even if the symptoms appear the same.

Closing this old thread.