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After the recent Xorg upgrade I've noticed the following behaviour: I open one terminal :: it has borders, I open up a second terminal :: it lacks borders (1st opened terminal still has its borders). In order to "force" the 2nd opened terminal to receive borders I have to: unfocus(?) it.
Notes: 1. I'm using urxvtc + urxvtd and the problem did not exist before the upgrade. 2. I don't know if it's "terminal" specific, the problem is I don't have any other "GUI programs" to see if they lose their borders too.
Edit: Forgot the actual question/request: is anyone else experiencing this or has any idea what might be causing it?
Last edited by string (2008-12-02 09:24:29)
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Same with xmonad, and I also have occasional glitches in dwm (parts of borders missing), and unusably often in evilwm (parts of border remain over windows after window move).
It seems to be a driver problem. I use X.Org's radeon driver for my radeon 9200, and problem disappears when I disable hardware acceleration.
It happens with both terminal (xterm) and gtk apps.
Last edited by stojic (2008-12-02 09:47:39)
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I also remember XMonad and urxvt not playing nice.
gnome-terminal always worked though, so that's what I use nowadays in any WM...
Last edited by moljac024 (2008-12-02 13:32:29)
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I'm running Xmonad with urxvtd too and I have no problems with it.
I manually start X by logging in vc/1 and typing startx.
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I managed to fix the problem and keep hardware acceleration, it turns out it really was driver problem.
I changed AccelMethod to EXA, this fixed borders but resizing/redrawing windows was slow. Then I set AccelDFS to True which made things fast but resulted in corrupted mouse cursor and occasional random garbage on screen. Lowering AGPMode to 2 fixed these issues . This is the final configuration that works very good:
Section "Device"
Identifier "r9200"
Driver "radeon"
Option "AccelMethod" "EXA"
Option "AccelDFS" "True"
Option "AGPMode" "2"
EndSection
Last edited by stojic (2008-12-02 15:27:57)
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moljac024: There's no way I'm using gnome-terminal on my minimalist, mostly CLI (excepting Xorg itself, XMonad and rxvt-unicode) system + As I've mentioned, before recent updates: xmonad + rxvt-unicode = happy couple.
andre.ramaciotti: That's how I log in as well.
stojic: Indeed, I guess it's a problem with ATI Radeon cards. I'm forced to use fglrx if I want to have 1280x800 resolution, I'll try to use your post as ref. for solving "my case" when I have the time.
Thanks.
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