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steven

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Registered: 2007-07-17

Posts: 56

Issues with compositing and some apps

Hi,

I'm pretty sure this only started happening after I did a complete system upgrade. I use the XFCE built in compositor. The problem I'm having is basically flashes! Annoying black flashes in firefox and opera. Konqueror isn't affected and I've never had this problem before (xfce under gentoo). I also don't recall having the issue before I did the system upgrade.

I'm using the latest nvidia drivers and the latest firefox. To replicate, open a firefox window on one virtual desktop. Then jump to another desktop and go back to the one containing firefox. For me, the firefox window flashes, the entire window is black for a split second. It doesn't sound like a big issue, but it's annoying as hell and I would be regularly switching desktops like this, as I code in one desktop and view in another.

I just want to know if anyone else experiences this or if they know a fix, before I try a re-install of arch. Note, this doesn't occur when XFCE's compositor is disabled. I haven't tested with copmiz fusion yet.

My xorg.conf

Section "ServerLayout"
    Identifier     "X.org Configured"
    Screen      0  "Screen0" 0 0
    #Option         "StandbyTime"  "10"  # Turn off screen after 10 minutes (DPMS)
    InputDevice    "Mouse0" "CorePointer"
        InputDevice    "TouchPad" "AlwaysCore"
    InputDevice    "Keyboard0" "CoreKeyboard"
EndSection

Section "Files"
    RgbPath      "/usr/share/X11/rgb"
    ModulePath   "/usr/lib/xorg/modules"
        FontPath     "/usr/share/fonts/misc"
        FontPath     "/usr/share/fonts/100dpi/"
    FontPath     "/usr/share/fonts/75dpi/"
        FontPath     "/usr/share/fonts/misc:unscaled"
        FontPath     "/usr/share/fonts/100dpi:unscaled"
        FontPath     "/usr/share/fonts/75dpi:unscaled"
        FontPath     "/usr/share/fonts/TTF/"
        FontPath     "/usr/share/fonts/Type1/"
        FontPath     "/usr/share/fonts/speedo/"
        FontPath     "/usr/share/fonts/artwiz-fonts/"
EndSection

Section "Module"
    Load  "extmod"
    Load  "dbe"
    Load  "record"
    Load  "xtrap"
    Load  "glx"
    Load  "wfb"
    Load  "freetype"
    Load  "type1"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
    Identifier  "Keyboard0"
    Driver      "kbd"
        Option      "XkbModel" "pc105"
        Option      "XkbLayout" "gb"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
    Identifier  "Mouse0"
    Driver      "mouse"
    Option        "Protocol" "auto"
    Option        "Device" "/dev/psaux"
    Option        "ZAxisMapping" "4 5"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
     Identifier  "TouchPad"
     Driver    "synaptics"
     Option    "SHMConfig" "on"
     Option    "SendCoreEvents" "true"
     Option    "Protocol" "auto"
     Option    "Device" "/dev/input/mouse2"
     Option    "LeftEdge" "130"
     Option    "RightEdge" "840"
     Option    "TopEdge" "130"
     Option    "BottomEdge" "640"
     Option    "FingerLow" "7"
     Option    "FingerHigh" "8"
     Option    "MaxTapTime" "180"
     Option    "MinTapTime" "110"
     Option    "ClickTime" "0"
     Option    "EmulateMidButtonTime" "75"
     Option    "VertScrollDelta" "20"
     Option    "HorizScrollDelta" "20"
     Option    "MinSpeed" "0.40"
     Option    "MaxSpeed" "0.65"
     Option    "AccelFactor" "0.030"
     Option    "EdgeMotionMinSpeed" "200"
     Option    "EdgeMotionMaxSpeed" "200"
     Option    "UpDownScrolling" "1"
     Option    "CircularScrolling" "1"
     Option    "CircScrollDelta" "0.1"
     Option    "CircScrollTrigger" "3"
     Option    "Emulate3Buttons" "on"
     Option    "VertEdgeScroll" "on"
 EndSection


Section "Monitor"
    Identifier  "Monitor0"
    VendorName  "Sony"
    ModelName   "Vaio notebook LCD"
        HorizSync   29.0 - 49.0
        VertRefresh 0.0 - 60.0
        Option      "DPMS"  "true"
EndSection

Section "Device"
    Identifier  "Card0"
    Driver      "nvidia"
    VendorName  "nVidia Corporation"
    BoardName   "Nvidia GeForce Go 7400"
    BusID       "PCI:1:0:0"
    Option      "NoLogo" "true"
    Option      "TripleBuffer" "True"
    Option      "backingstore" "true"
    Option      "AddARGBGLXVisuals" "true"
    Option      "NvAgp" "2"
EndSection

Section "Screen"
    Identifier  "Screen0"
    Device      "Card0"
    Monitor     "Monitor0"
    Option      "MetaModes" "1280x800_60 +0+0"
    Option      "TwinView" "1"
    Option      "TwinViewOrientation" "LeftOf"
    Option      "TwinViewXineramaInfoOrder" "DFP,CRT"
    Option      "UseEdidFreqs" "1"
    Option      "UseEDIDDpi" "DFP-0"
    DefaultDepth 24
    SubSection  "Display"
        Depth     24
        Modes     "1600x1200" "1280x1024" "1280x800" "1024x768"
    EndSubSection
EndSection

Section "Extensions"
    Option      "Composite"  "Enable"
EndSection

Thanks