Bug 440982

Are you using compiz ?

Yeah, sorry for the weak report.

Here is a better report: Thinkpad X60, intel 945GM/GMS, compiz.  Compiz running
with '--indirect-rendering'.

No messages in either ~/.xsession-errors or /var/log/Xorg.0.log that appear
relevant.

Have been getting these lately however:
failed to create drawable
failed to create drawable
failed to create drawable
failed to create drawable

in .xsession-errors, but I get these with PNG background too. (Appear to get
them when a new window/menu/popup is displayed).

I don't see it here, but no idea how to triage this more.

Uhhh...

Here are version of compiz I'm running (I think Rawhide):

[tbl@localhost ~]$ rpm -qa compiz\*
compizconfig-backend-gconf-0.7.2-1.fc9.i386
compiz-gnome-0.7.2-3.fc9.i386
compiz-fusion-extras-0.7.2-2.fc9.i386
compiz-fusion-extras-gnome-0.7.2-2.fc9.i386
compiz-0.7.2-3.fc9.i386
compizconfig-python-0.7.2-1.fc9.i386
compiz-manager-0.6.0-7.fc9.noarch
compiz-fusion-gnome-0.7.2-2.fc9.i386
compiz-fusion-0.7.2-2.fc9.i386
[tbl@localhost ~]$ 

This happens with every "slideshow" background.

In fact, even selecting a JPEG or PNG background clobbers the top panel.  I have
to "rotate the cube" to restore it.  So maybe the "slideshow" angle is not the
primary issue.

What more can I do?

OK.  I may have figured this out..... This may have something to do with the way
I start compiz, gnome-sessions and indirect rendering..... 

I have my session 'setup' to start compiz on gnome login. Here is the line in
.gnome2/session that I was using:

9,CloneCommand=compiz --indirect-rendering --sm-client-id --replace glib gconf 

Here is what I did:

1. I turned off desktop effects and saved the session, and logged in again. 
Session started without compiz, and I had no problems with 'slideshow' wave
background.

2. I started 'Compiz Fusion Icon' (I have it configured to use 'indirect
rendering'), and compiz started.  Within a few seconds, I started seeing jumpy
flickering as the background appeared to be refreshed, but the top panel was OK.

3. I restored the 'compiz .gnome2/session file', but I changed the compiz lines to:
9,CloneCommand=/home/tbl/bin/run-compiz.sh
9,RestartCommand=/home/tbl/bin/run-compiz.sh

where run-compiz.sh is:
#!/bin/bash

LIBGL_ALWAYS_INDIRECT=1 compiz --indirect-rendering --sm-client-id --replace
glib gconf

This adds the 'LIBGL_ALWAYS_INDIRECT=1' to the call of compiz.

This changes 2 things: first, the flickery, jumpy, overwrite the top panel seems
to have vanised; and second, I no longer seem to be getting

failed to create drawable
failed to create drawable

messages in ~/.xsession-errors.

Is it likely that I just botched the 'compiz startup'?  Am I doing this wrong?

Is the above a possible explanation?

Uhhh.... above does not cover it.....

The monitor in my work office has the jitters and overwrites of the top panel
even with the changes described in #5...

Sorry.

[The changes do eliminate the "failed to create drawable" messages in
.xsession-errors however.]

Continue to have this issue with:

[tbl@localhost ~]$ rpm -qa compiz\* mesa\*
compizconfig-backend-gconf-0.7.2-1.fc9.i386
compiz-gnome-0.7.2-3.fc9.i386
compiz-fusion-extras-0.7.2-2.fc9.i386
mesa-libGLU-devel-7.1-0.28.fc9.i386
mesa-libOSMesa-7.1-0.28.fc9.i386
mesa-libGLU-7.1-0.28.fc9.i386
compiz-fusion-extras-gnome-0.7.2-2.fc9.i386
mesa-libOSMesa-devel-7.1-0.28.fc9.i386
compiz-0.7.2-3.fc9.i386
mesa-libGL-devel-7.1-0.28.fc9.i386
mesa-libGL-7.1-0.28.fc9.i386
compizconfig-python-0.7.2-1.fc9.i386
compiz-manager-0.6.0-7.fc9.noarch
compiz-fusion-gnome-0.7.2-2.fc9.i386
compiz-fusion-0.7.2-2.fc9.i386
[tbl@localhost ~]$ 

Surprisingly, it seems to behave differently on different monitors.

I could swear it doesn't 'jitter' with my old MEL monitor, but it does with my
HP monitor.

Am I smoking too many Fedora bits? ;)

flickers for me with compiz, too. but more than every 70s.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 441219 ***