Screen not repainting

Roberto J Dohnert rjdohnert at gmail.com
Wed Mar 30 20:00:48 CEST 2016


The same happens with Xubuntu.

On 03/30/2016 01:47 PM, ToddAndMargo wrote:
> On 03/28/2016 07:00 AM, Ernest Adrogué wrote:
>> 2016-03-13, 05:56 (-0700); ToddAndMargo escriu:
>>> Hi All,
>>>
>>> FC23
>>> Xfce 4.12
>>>
>>> Whenever I come log into my GUI or come back from screen saver, my 
>>> screen
>>> does not repaint. It is all black. Everything is still there, just 
>>> click on
>>> it with the mouse and the item you hit will repaint. Mouse across 
>>> the task
>>> bar repaints those items too. Once repainted, they stay repainted.
>>>
>>> This happened coincident with a "dnf upgrade"
>>>
>>> Any idea how to get normal behavior back?
>>
>> I have the same problem on a Debian system.  It occurs at random, 
>> especially
>> when switching from full-screen mode in mplayer, I think, but not 
>> always.
>> I've also noticed some odd graphical glitches.  For instance, when 
>> hovering
>> the mouse over certain GUI elements in PyChess a kind of tooltip pops 
>> up,
>> but the tooltip window flickers and it actually shows a copy of the 
>> contents
>> of some other area of the screen, rather than a tooltip. I'm using the
>> open-source Radeon driver.
>>
>> Cheers.
>
> Hi Ernest,
>
> By chance are you using GLSideshow?  I was and changed to
> Bouncing Cows and the symptom went away.
>
> So I reported the issue to Red Hat:
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1322554
>
> -T
>
> Okay, I find the bounding cows hysterical, but I am really
> only twelve years old at heart.
>
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