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thender
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 Posted: Sat Jul 12, 2014 4:23 am Post subject: xfce4-session distortion across entire screen |
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If I use KDE, I have no issues.
With xfce, recently, I get complete distortion everywhere if I start certain programs like avidemux or chrome. The screen may blink a little and you can't see much, the icons on the bottom will only appear if I run my mouse over them.
Is this a common issue or unique to me? |
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eccerr0r
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| Posted: Mon Jul 14, 2014 3:17 pm Post subject: |
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I don't have issues with xfce on multiple machines... I never tried KDE with Gentoo.
I'd probably start with re-emerging the GTK libraries just to make sure they're fresh but it may be something more sinister going on, maybe some bad interaction with an older video driver?
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ct85711
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| Posted: Mon Jul 14, 2014 5:51 pm Post subject: |
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| When I was running xfce on my laptop (the laptop eventualy breathed it's last breath and died on me) with dual screens, I never had any issues like that. The only issue I had was the system wanting to have both screens be the same resolution (doesn't help when the other monitor is significantly larger). |
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thender
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| Posted: Fri Jul 18, 2014 8:46 pm Post subject: |
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| eccerr0r wrote: | | I'd probably start with re-emerging the GTK libraries just to make sure they're fresh but it may be something more sinister going on, maybe some bad interaction with an older video driver? |
At the risk of revealing how ignorant I am, what packages should I start with to re-emerge the GTK libraries? My video drivers are fairly new, and I did notice this appears limited to applications that use gtk.
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SamuliSuominen
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| Posted: Fri Jul 18, 2014 11:00 pm Post subject: |
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# emerge -1v "dev-libs/glib:2" x11-libs/cairo x11-libs/gdk-pixbuf "x11-libs/gtk+:2" "x11-libs/gtk+:3"
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EDIT: Your problem indeed sounds like bad interaction between X.org server and the graphics drivers and x11-libs/cairo. Wouldn't be the first time. |
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thender
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| Posted: Sat Jul 19, 2014 4:45 am Post subject: |
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I tried that, same thing. It's not just when avidemux is started, you can see all of it on the bottom icons from the moment you login. I miss when xfce4-session worked properly.  |
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SamuliSuominen
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| Posted: Sat Jul 19, 2014 9:05 am Post subject: |
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| Downgrade the graphics drivers? |
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thender
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| Posted: Sat Jul 19, 2014 3:09 pm Post subject: |
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| ssuominen wrote: | | Downgrade the graphics drivers? |
If I have a haswell intel CPu with integrated graphics, is that just MESA and xf86-video-intel, or are there more?
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eccerr0r
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You might want to check out freedesktop.org's bugtracker to see if someone else has reported these issues. I unfortunately don't own a Haswell machine to try this on, xfce seems to work OK with my i945gm graphics. I did not try xfce on my Ivybridge and Sandybridge machines however, but they have Gnome3 on them...which also should use gtk...and they work fine.
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SamuliSuominen
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| thender wrote: | | ssuominen wrote: | | Downgrade the graphics drivers? |
If I have a haswell intel CPu with integrated graphics, is that just MESA and xf86-video-intel, or are there more?
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Try downgrading x11-drivers/xf86-video-intel first, one version, then second, then third, ...
It shouldn't be required to downgrade media-libs/mesa
That's at least what I'd try first |
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