Created attachment 1679746 [details] screen-capture of xeyes showing ghosts and multiple images. Description of problem: On April 09, 2020, I upgraded my home Fedora workstation from f30 to f31. Before that xeyes worked well. After the upgrade, xeyes showed "ghosts" from other active windows (terminal, Firefox, Thunderbird, LibreOffice applications, xv, etc.) in its background (the area between the its rectangular border and the eyes). xeyes also now flickers irregularly but rather rapidly. xeyes also often appears double, triple, etc. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): bash.10[~]: dnf history xorg-x11-apps ID | Command line | Date and time | Action(s) | Altered ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 935 | system-upgrade upgrade | 2020-04-09 13:23 | D, E, I, O, U | 4080 E< [... snip ...] bash.11[~]: dnf info xorg-x11-apps Last metadata expiration check: 1:27:58 ago on Fri 17 Apr 2020 11:41:15 AM MDT. Installed Packages Name : xorg-x11-apps Version : 7.7 Release : 26.fc31 Architecture : x86_64 Size : 1.0 M Source : xorg-x11-apps-7.7-26.fc31.src.rpm Repository : @System From repo : fedora [... snip ...] How reproducible: I'm using gnome. xeyes is launched from within my .bash_profile when I log in. Launch Firefox or a terminal, and use it. Move it around on the screen. Watch a youtube video. Any of these will cause or change the above symptoms. The problems also show up if xeyes is launched from the command line. Expected results: The background should be either the monitor's background or the color specified by the bg option in the xeyes command. There should be only one pair of eyes displayed for each xeyes command issued. The xeyes display should not flicker. Additional info: I have a dual-monitor system, and those monitors are rather large. So I do sometimes "lose" the cursor. xeyes is useful for finding and following the cursor. So my use of xeyes is not for amusement, decoration, or show; it is for practical reasons. My graphics card is an nvidia GeForce GTX 660/PCIe/SSE2. I use the kmod driver for the graphics card. Gnome is at 3.34.5 monitors are Dell U2711, 2560x1440, 27-inch.
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This bug should not be closed as end-of-life. The problems did continue into Fedora-32. However, I've not seen the reported behaviour in the past week. It's ok with me if this bug is closed as overcome-by-events. (I assume that I am not allowed to do that myself.)
This message is a reminder that Fedora 32 is nearing its end of life. Fedora will stop maintaining and issuing updates for Fedora 32 on 2021-05-25. It is Fedora's policy to close all bug reports from releases that are no longer maintained. At that time this bug will be closed as EOL if it remains open with a Fedora 'version' of '32'. Package Maintainer: If you wish for this bug to remain open because you plan to fix it in a currently maintained version, simply change the 'version' to a later Fedora version. Thank you for reporting this issue and we are sorry that we were not able to fix it before Fedora 32 is end of life. If you would still like to see this bug fixed and are able to reproduce it against a later version of Fedora, you are encouraged change the 'version' to a later Fedora version prior this bug is closed as described in the policy above. Although we aim to fix as many bugs as possible during every release's lifetime, sometimes those efforts are overtaken by events. Often a more recent Fedora release includes newer upstream software that fixes bugs or makes them obsolete.
Fedora 32 changed to end-of-life (EOL) status on 2021-05-25. Fedora 32 is no longer maintained, which means that it will not receive any further security or bug fix updates. As a result we are closing this bug. If you can reproduce this bug against a currently maintained version of Fedora please feel free to reopen this bug against that version. If you are unable to reopen this bug, please file a new report against the current release. If you experience problems, please add a comment to this bug. Thank you for reporting this bug and we are sorry it could not be fixed.