I don't notice this on machines that don't use the radeon driver so I suspect there may be an issue there. I'm using stock F8 with metacity. I *often* see issues with gnome-terminal like the screenshot I'm going to attach. # lspci | grep ATI 01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc RV280 [Radeon 9200] (rev 01) 01:00.1 Display controller: ATI Technologies Inc RV280 [Radeon 9200] (Secondary) (rev 01) Often, I'll get weird artifacts of things that either used to be on my screen or are in other windows that are open but not in view.
Created attachment 265041 [details] illustrative screenshot
Actually, this might be problem of gnome-terminal (is that what you use as your xterm emulator)? Reassigning to gnome-terminal folks for further investigation. However, still, could you please attach to this bug /var/log/Xorg.0.log and /etc/X11/xorg.conf (just in case) as two separate uncompressed attachments? Thank you.
Yes, I use gnome-terminal (see comment #1 ;). I'll attach the two requested files.
Created attachment 266171 [details] /var/log/Xorg.0.log
Created attachment 266181 [details] /etc/X11/xorg.conf
I talked to Behdad and it's not a gnome-terminal issue in his opinion. I can only duplicate this on radeon hardware.
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