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V10lator Apprentice
Joined: 11 Jul 2004 Posts: 207
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Posted: Sun Apr 14, 2013 1:24 pm Post subject: Fullscreen windows flickering |
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Hi,
whenever I play a game in fullscreen and some other application draws a popup (like a skype notification, for example) the screen flickers (when the popup gets drawn and when it's removed again). I don't know what's the issue here but I saw it with both, compiz and xfwm4. With xfwm4 I tried disabling the unredirecting of fullscreen windows, but that made things even more worse: The flickering was still there but the popup was just visible for (a part of) a second. I can't test the same with compiz as it has been removed from the PC.
I'm using:
- x11-base/xorg-server-1.13.1
- x11-drivers/ati-drivers-13.3_beta3 (self made ebuild to see if the issue may have been fixed there)
- Kernel 3.8.4 (directly from kernel.org)
My card is a Radeon HD 6950. |
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dimko Apprentice
Joined: 12 Feb 2006 Posts: 196
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Posted: Mon Apr 15, 2013 8:02 pm Post subject: i'd say |
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It's normal behaviour.
Being using gentoo with nvidia for a while, happened with me quite often too.
Simply disable most visual skype warnings... _________________ Just a user. |
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V10lator Apprentice
Joined: 11 Jul 2004 Posts: 207
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Posted: Tue Apr 16, 2013 10:44 am Post subject: |
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This really shouldn't be handled as "normal" behaviour. Some action seems to take more time than a frame has to get drawn. First I thought it's cause compiz/xfwm4 has to switch from unredirected to redirected mode (which is also what google told me) but changing this didn't help (and weirdly made it even more annoying).
I would love to know who's responsible for that (the X server, the compositor, the GPU driver, ...) to ask them to fix this. |
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dimko Apprentice
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Posted: Tue Apr 16, 2013 11:17 am Post subject: |
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I use gnome 2, so issue is not what you think it is. I don't use compiz.
So it's either Xorg or something to do with Nvidia drivers, which I don't know if you are using. _________________ Just a user. |
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