Intellij IDEA graphical glitches with i3 (and compton)

brainplot · 2018-02-03 17:48:03

Hi everyone,
I've been using IntelliJ IDEA for quite a while when I used KDE as my DE. Now I switched to i3 (and Compton) and I'm experiencing some issues with IntelliJ.

Basically, as long as I'm just writing code and performing basic interaction, everything seems to be fine (more or less) but, as soon as I start going around in the menu I get weird graphical glitches. I can't really explain, here's a video which shows what I'm talking about (recorded by me).

Sometimes, upon closing a window, either by clicking Ok or Cancel, I can see a fragment of some other windows that belong to other applications running at that time.

I tried to kill compton and re-open Intellij and the situation is defininitely better, although I can still see some little glitches here and there when resizing the windows (here's a video without compton enabled).

I also tried to edit the way compton is invoked at startup, with this command

exec --no-startup-id compton -b --fade-exclude 'class_g = "jetbrains*"' &

with no luck. It's exactly the same as in the first video.

$ compton --version
v0.1_beta2.5

$ cat .config/compton.conf 
shadow = true;
no-dnd-shadow = true;
no-dock-shadow = true;
clear-shadow = true;
shadow-radius = 7;
shadow-offset-x = -7;
shadow-offset-y = -7;
shadow-opacity = 0.7;
shadow-red = 0.113725;
shadow-green = 0.113725;
shadow-blue = 0.113725;
shadow-exclude = [ "name = 'Notification'", "class_g = 'Conky'", "class_g ?= 'Notify-osd'", "class_g = 'Cairo-clock'" ];
shadow-ignore-shaped = false;
menu-opacity = 1.0;
inactive-opacity = 1.0;
active-opacity = 1.0;
frame-opacity = 1.0;
inactive-opacity-override = false;
alpha-step = 0.03;
inactive-dim = 0.0;
blur-kern = "3x3box";
blur-background-exclude = [ "window_type = 'dock'", "window_type = 'desktop'" ];
fading = true;
fade-in-step = 0.03;
fade-out-step = 0.03;
fade-exclude = [ ];
backend = "glx";
mark-wmwin-focused = true;
mark-ovredir-focused = true;
detect-rounded-corners = true;
detect-client-opacity = true;
refresh-rate = 0;
vsync = "none";
dbe = false;
paint-on-overlay = true;
focus-exclude = [ "class_g = 'Cairo-clock'" ];
detect-transient = true;
detect-client-leader = true;
invert-color-include = [ ];
glx-copy-from-front = false;
glx-swap-method = "undefined";
wintypes : 
{
  tooltip : 
  {
    fade = true;
    shadow = false;
    opacity = 0.75;
    focus = true;
  };
};
sw-opti = true;
xrender-sync = true;
blur-background = true;

Any idea as to how I can solve this?

EDIT:
Installing the development branch of Compton from the AUR didn't solve the issue

Last edited by brainplot (2018-02-03 17:49:18)

seth · 2018-02-03 19:00:14

Please read the CoC sticky and do not crosspost.
https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=234132

Slithery · 2018-02-03 19:05:18

@brainplot, I emailed you about your request to move this thread earlier. In future please report your post if you want it moved instead of crossposting.

brainplot · 2018-02-03 21:27:16

Understood! I'm sorry guys

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#1 2018-02-03 17:48:03

Intellij IDEA graphical glitches with i3 (and compton)

#2 2018-02-03 19:00:14

Re: Intellij IDEA graphical glitches with i3 (and compton)

#3 2018-02-03 19:05:18

Re: Intellij IDEA graphical glitches with i3 (and compton)

#4 2018-02-03 21:27:16

Re: Intellij IDEA graphical glitches with i3 (and compton)

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