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Dethredic

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Registered: 2009-01-24

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Resizing terminal causes black box in upper left corner of screen

I use the program "terminal" as my terminal (i guess) program (as opposed to xterm etc). I also use openbox as well as the nvidia drivers.

When I click the edge of the terminal program I get a black box in the upper left corner of my screen. If I resize the terminal window then the black box grows with it (proportionally). It is like a shadow. I can then drag anything over top of it and it goes back to normal.

eg:

http://imgur.com/FZMte

http://imgur.com/9tqND

http://imgur.com/Ri025

I have the latest drivers.

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alessandro_ufms

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From: Campo Grande, MS - Brazil

Registered: 2008-06-25

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Re: Resizing terminal causes black box in upper left corner of screen

Are you using openbox inside KDE? I'm having this problem on vanilla KDE: https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=272757

Dethredic

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Re: Resizing terminal causes black box in upper left corner of screen

nope, just openbox

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bernarcher

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From: Germany

Registered: 2009-02-17

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Re: Resizing terminal causes black box in upper left corner of screen

Do you use a composition manager with openbox?
Those look like there are rewrite problems on the hidden layer.

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Dethredic

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Re: Resizing terminal causes black box in upper left corner of screen

No I do not.

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cvillelk

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From: Lafayette, LA

Registered: 2011-01-01

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Re: Resizing terminal causes black box in upper left corner of screen

I'm experiencing the same issue in XFCE, the latest nvidia drivers.

Enabling compositing fixes the issue, though isn't a solution for me since I rely on Xinerama and compositing doesn't play nice with Xinerama...

Interesting that only the terminal window instigates the problem. I'll let you know if I find a solution.

cvillelk

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From: Lafayette, LA

Registered: 2011-01-01

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Re: Resizing terminal causes black box in upper left corner of screen

Well, I gave up troubleshooting the xfwm - xorg - nvidia setup so I uninstalled nvidia and installed nouveau.

The problem went away, though performance isn't quite the same... which is saying something since my most graphically demanding task is resizing a window.

chr0nik

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From: Michigan, USA

Registered: 2011-03-13

Posts: 31

Re: Resizing terminal causes black box in upper left corner of screen

I have the same problem with xfce and the latest nvidia drivers. The issue is posted on the nvidia linux support forums here: http://www.nvnews.net/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=162387

I also found it in xfce's bug tracker: https://bugzilla.xfce.org/show_bug.cgi?id=7517

I guess at this point we just wait and in the interim try a different terminal or possibly revert to an older nvidia driver.

Dethredic

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Re: Resizing terminal causes black box in upper left corner of screen

I will just avoid resizing my terminal window

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Gianfrix

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From: Locorotondo (BA) - Italy

Registered: 2009-10-21

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Re: Resizing terminal causes black box in upper left corner of screen

Latest beta drivers (275.09.04) solve this problem

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Rziz

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Registered: 2011-06-12

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Re: Resizing terminal causes black box in upper left corner of screen

Apparently this issue isn't resolved yet as of stable nvidia 270.41.19; unfortunately I cannot use nouveau due to it's less advanced multi-monitor support.
This bug is reported upstream: https://bugzilla.xfce.org/show_bug.cgi?id=7517, for Fedora: http://www.fedoraforum.org/forum/showth … p?t=263471 as well as Ubuntu: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+sour … bug/777606.
Another problem, perhaps unrelated, seems to occur to me when using konsole with kwin desktop effects enabled, solely when using the nvidia drivers. If one resizes the konsole window strange artifacts appear ocassionaly causing X to crash.

Kilzool

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From: Ireland

Registered: 2010-08-04

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Re: Resizing terminal causes black box in upper left corner of screen

I reported this issue awhile ago, somewhere here on the forums.  If it bothers me too much, I just make xterm my default.

Kilzool

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Registered: 2010-08-04

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Re: Resizing terminal causes black box in upper left corner of screen

I found this solved as of today, with the new nvidia which was:

[2011-06-14 19:38] upgraded nvidia-utils (270.41.19-1 -> 275.09.07-1)
[2011-06-14 19:39] upgraded nvidia (270.41.19-3 -> 275.09.07-1)