[NOT solved] Re: Problem with refreshing in xterm and emacs
Rainer M Krug
r.m.krug at gmail.com
Sat Jun 11 08:29:39 UTC 2011
On Fri, Jun 10, 2011 at 10:52 PM, Cory Sadowski <csadowski08 at gmail.com>wrote:
> I experienced similar problems myself; for me the programs in question
> were gnome-terminal and mutt; they would be fine and then randomly
> freeze up everything as soon as I started to fetch my mail. For me,
> the solution was to turn off the Blur plugin in compiz, because it's
> unstable in this release. That was with my nvidia card. With my
> Intel-based laptop, just turning on Blur would send it into an
> infinite loop of crashing. Oddly enough, KDE works flawlessly, even
> with that experimental transparent version of Oxygen. I hope that's of
> help to you somewhat.
>
Interesting - but the plugin was not enabled. And I found a solution:
I can confirm this now: same symptoms on classic with compiz.
I checked out the workarounds in ccsm:
"Fix screen updates in XGL with fglrx" --- did not help for me
"Force synchronization between X ang GLX" --- did solve the problem,
although I do have an ATI card, but performance suffered
"Force full screen redraws (buffer swap) on repaint" - did solve the
problem, with less performance issues
Found these tips on a SuSe bug list...
And somebody else had a similar problem and highlighted the bug
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gnome-panel/+bug/767095
and in retrospect, I had similar problems with the panel - and he was using
an intel card as well.
So - there seems to be some glitches with compiz, but it seems to be fixed
for me now.
Still: any more ideas?
Rainer
> On Fri, Jun 10, 2011 at 01:56:47PM +0200, Rainer M Krug wrote:
> > On Fri, Jun 10, 2011 at 1:24 PM, Rainer M Krug <[1]r.m.krug at gmail.com
> >
> > wrote:
> >
> > On Fri, Jun 10, 2011 at 12:13 PM, Rainer M Krug <[2]
> r.m.krug at gmail.com>
> > wrote:
> >
> > Hi
> > I know this is not a real power user question, but I only think
> power
> > users can answer it, because only they might experience the
> > problem....
> > So:
> > I am using Natty and all updates and unity.
> > I must say I quite like it, but there is one major issue:
> > I am using emacs regularly (programming) and also terminal (xterm,
> mc)
> > and it happens regularly that, when working in emacs, not all
> letters
> > are refreshes after typing or shown as white squares or nothing at
> > all. When I mve my mouse into a different window, all text appears
> as
> > it should. So I assume that it is �kind of refreshing issue, that
> > compiz is no refreshing when it should.
> > Is somebody else experiencing this behavior? Is there anything
> that I
> > can do to fix this? Can I try a different composite manager or
> disable
> > composite at all? I tried unity-2D, but that is not handling my
> two
> > monitor setup (laptop plus external monitor with different
> resolution
> > above) at all.�
> > If it is important:�
> > graphic card: ATI Technologies Inc M56P [Radeon Mobility X1600]�
> > open source driver, as no�proprietary�exists any more.
> > Any help appreciated as I am a little desperate (I even tried kde
> > again, but was even less happy with it generally and might have to
> go
> > back to fluxbox...)
> >
> > Well - I found a solution - when enabling under ccsm "Click To
> Focus" it
> > seems to be working - but I liked that the focus moves with the
> mouse
> > and that I can work in a window in the background. And I unset
> "Raise On
> > Click", so that I can now still work in windows in the back, and if
> I
> > want them in the foreground, I can simply click on the titlebar -
> nice.
> >
> > But the problem is still there with the refreshing / redrawing.
> > Any ideas welcome,
> > Rainer
> > �
> >
> > Cheers,
> > Rainer
> >
> > Cheers,
> > Rainer
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> >
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> > South Africa
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Rainer M. Krug, PhD (Conservation Ecology, SUN), MSc (Conservation Biology,
UCT), Dipl. Phys. (Germany)
Centre of Excellence for Invasion Biology
Stellenbosch University
South Africa
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