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Ekynox360

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Display artifacts with Xfce

Hello, everyone.

I wonder if you are aware of this display problem (https://imgur.com/uAezKID)? As it stands, I can no longer use Arch with the GUI. This appeared recently after an update. Everything is up to date on my side.

Thank you

jasonwryan

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Re: Display artifacts with Xfce

What was updated? What is your graphics stack? Please see How To Ask Questions The Smart Way

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Ekynox360

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Re: Display artifacts with Xfce

I use:

- X.org X Server 1.20.5
- pixman 0.38.4
- lightdm 1.30.0
- xfce 4.14

jasonwryan

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Re: Display artifacts with Xfce

Graphics stack means your video card(s) and drivers.

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toz

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Re: Display artifacts with Xfce

Looks like a compositor issue. Try this to see if it helps.

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Re: Display artifacts with Xfce

See also https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php … 1#p1859321

tl;dr: enable the TearFree option for your (DDX) video driver.

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Ekynox360

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Re: Display artifacts with Xfce

I have a Ryzen 3 2200G with xf86-video-amdgpu and mesa drivers. On the lightdm welcome page, I don't have these artifacts.

seth

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Re: Display artifacts with Xfce

There's also https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php … 0#p1859260

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toz

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Re: Display artifacts with Xfce

I have a Ryzen 3 2200G with xf86-video-amdgpu and mesa drivers. On the lightdm welcome page, I don't have these artifacts.

Try testing with the compositor vblank mode set to xpresent:

xfwm4 --vblank=xpresent --replace

Ekynox360

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Re: Display artifacts with Xfce

Try testing with the compositor vblank mode set to xpresent:

xfwm4 --vblank=xpresent --replace

When I do this, I no longer have artifact but my windows no longer have a menu bar. Furthermore, an error occurs.

xfwm4-CRITICAL : Xfconf could not be initialized
xfwm4-WARNING: Missing data from default files

toz

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Re: Display artifacts with Xfce

You have a bigger issue with your system. You need to figure out why xfconf is not initializing.

- Which display manager are you using and how are you starting X?
- Check your pacman log to make sure all packages updated properly.
- Look at your journal and ~/.xsession-errors.log file if one exists
- Is the xfconfd process running?

Ekynox360

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Re: Display artifacts with Xfce

I reinstalled the whole system. It works now.

Last edited by Ekynox360 (2019-09-29 10:24:12)