xfce4 session logout instant logout if compositing disabled

eccerr0r

Weird...can people replicate this:
If I have xfce4 compositing disabled, whenever I logout, xfce4-session-logout will instantly logout and will not give a popup box allowing reboot, suspend, sleep, hibernate, etc.

Unfortunately compositing makes my laptop slow...

Anyone seen this? Can I get functionality without having to enable compositing?

I think this is what's happening: it's trying to dim the session/background when popping up the dialog box to offer choices of logout. When compositing is disabled, it can't do this and simply logs out...

This is improper behavior I think... ?
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psycho · Guru Joined: 22 Jun 2007 Posts: 534 Location: New Zealand

Yes, that looks like improper behaviour...but no, I can't replicate it. My XFCE logs out correctly (displaying the dialog with options like logout/reboot/shutdown) even when I disable compositing. I wonder if you could fix it by not merely disabling compositing via xfwm4-tweaks-settings, but actually removing that code (rebuilding with -xcomposite in USE)?

If that doesn't work, maybe it's a video driver bug (I'm using nvidia-drivers 470.94)?

figueroa · Posted: Sun Jan 02, 2022 4:33 am Post subject:

I don't think any packages currently support that USE flag.

psycho · Guru Joined: 22 Jun 2007 Posts: 534 Location: New Zealand

Well, this is from the xfwm4 (4.16.1-r1) ebuild:

figueroa · Posted: Sun Jan 02, 2022 5:12 am Post subject:

That's distressing. Thanks for the correction.
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psycho · Guru Joined: 22 Jun 2007 Posts: 534 Location: New Zealand

It's odd...I thought euse was meant to work as you've used it there...so maybe it's a bug?

[edit]Actually I see it works for euse -I xcomposite (capital i for installed stuff)...but seems to be broken for the global search. I get the same output for euse -i (claiming that no packages use it at all), despite euse -I reporting two *installed* packages making use of it.[/edit]

eccerr0r · Posted: Sun Jan 02, 2022 5:33 am Post subject:

Very possible with a video driver bug, it's the Radeon R200 driver, not sure if it's a driver bug or perhaps my R200 has had it. glxgears does not render properly anymore, but I think I've seen some other of my R200's fail as well...
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ian.au · Guru Joined: 07 Apr 2011 Posts: 591 Location: Australia