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#1 2009-03-18 22:59:06

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[SOLVED] Xorg + dwm - Redraw glitches, garbage on the screen

Hi guys, I've used Arch a while ago, recently decided to give OS X a break in favor of dwm. Been working out pretty well, except this one thing:

When launching a GTK application (not just a terminal, and I do it from dmenu. It's happened with opera, thunderbird...) a lot of the time I get garbage on the screen. The application works - I can open up a tab in Opera and after I close it it'll be there on next startup, but I can't see anything. The only reliable way I have of not getting garbage is to open a terminal and launch it from there. In this case, I see the garbage only for a second, then it redraws correctly.

I'm not quite sure this is an Xorg or dwm problem, or something wrong with my config... I've attached screenshots of what this looks like. Look familiar to anyone?

Sorry about the images being so big...

Emacs, after moving around to get it to redraw.
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Opera, right after I launch it from dmenu...
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#2 2009-03-19 05:12:25

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Re: [SOLVED] Xorg + dwm - Redraw glitches, garbage on the screen

More info... this is a Macbook 2.1 through the LCD...

xorg-server 1.5.3-4
xf86-video-intel 2.4.3-1
dwm 5.4.1-1

My xorg.conf is right here.

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#3 2009-03-20 05:02:12

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Re: [SOLVED] Xorg + dwm - Redraw glitches, garbage on the screen

Ok, well I think I've found what's going on. The problem is definitely xcompmgr. My .xinitrc had a 'xcompmgr -n &' in it... killing xcompmgr made opera/thunderbird/whatever show up correctly.

So much for transparent terminals, heh. I suppose either intel support for compositing is poor, or I shouldn't be using xcompmgr in the first place.

I'll mark this as, er, Solved.

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#4 2009-03-20 05:13:26

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Re: [SOLVED] Xorg + dwm - Redraw glitches, garbage on the screen

No xcompmgr is just buggy unfortunately. If only there was an alternative.


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