Bug 584671

Summary: breaks down the text in an inactive window
Product: [Fedora] Fedora Reporter: Sergey Raspopov <sergey.linux>
Component: xorg-x11-drv-nouveauAssignee: Ben Skeggs <bskeggs>
Status: CLOSED WONTFIX QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Version: 13CC: airlied, bskeggs, muczyjoe
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Blurry Thunderbird font
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Description Sergey Raspopov 2010-04-22 06:41:41 UTC
If the window with the text in the background, partially hidden by another window, and if the inactive window scroll up or down, you can see the distortion of the text. Screenshot in attached. Video Geforce 7600 GT. Driver nouveau.

Comment 1 Sergey Raspopov 2010-04-22 06:43:28 UTC
Created attachment 408253 [details]
screenshot bug

Comment 2 Ben Skeggs 2010-04-22 22:41:22 UTC
I wonder if this may be related to 543201?

Comment 3 Sergey Raspopov 2010-04-23 07:25:29 UTC
(In reply to comment #2)
> I wonder if this may be related to 543201?    

Not sure. I have seen not only with firefox

Comment 4 Ben Skeggs 2010-04-27 00:00:25 UTC
Ok, are you able to create an xorg.conf file like:

Section "ServerLayout"
  Identifier "vesa-layout"
  Screen "vesa-screen"
EndSection

Section "Screen"
  Identifier "vesa-screen"
  Device "vesa-device"
EndSection

Section "Device"
  Identifier "vesa-device"
  Driver "vesa"
EndSection

And then reboot with "nomodeset" added to your kernel options and see if you can reproduce this issue with the vesa driver.  To switch back to nouveau, simply remove "nomodeset" and delete your xorg.conf.

Thank you!

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Comment 6 Bug Zapper 2011-06-27 15:47:45 UTC
Fedora 13 changed to end-of-life (EOL) status on 2011-06-25. Fedora 13 is 
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Comment 7 Peter Mihaly Avramucz 2012-08-01 12:18:15 UTC
This is still a problem in Fedora 17 with Intel 945GM and Thunderbird.

Comment 8 Peter Mihaly Avramucz 2012-08-01 12:21:04 UTC
Created attachment 601729 [details]
Blurry Thunderbird font

This is how ThunderBird looks like after some time spent in inactive state.

Comment 9 Peter Mihaly Avramucz 2012-08-01 12:21:54 UTC
Created attachment 601730 [details]
Correct Thunderbird font

This is how ThunderBird looks like after I select it's window with mouse or Alt+Tab.