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string

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Registered: 2008-11-03

Posts: 286

XMonad missing borders

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)

stojic

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From: Zagreb, Croatia

Registered: 2008-02-24

Posts: 51

Re: XMonad missing borders

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)

moljac024

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From: Serbia

Registered: 2008-01-29

Posts: 2,676

Re: XMonad missing borders

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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andre.ramaciotti

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From: Brazil

Registered: 2007-04-06

Posts: 649

Re: XMonad missing borders

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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stojic

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From: Zagreb, Croatia

Registered: 2008-02-24

Posts: 51

Re: XMonad missing borders

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)

string

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Registered: 2008-11-03

Posts: 286

Re: XMonad missing borders

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.