Description of problem: Selecting a slideshow background jumps/jitters, and appears to overwrite the top panel before sliding down. With the "Wave" background this happens almost exactly every 70 seconds. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): gnome-desktop-2.22.0-5.fc9.i386 (and prior) How reproducible: Every time Steps to Reproduce: 1. 2. 3. Actual results: Expected results: Additional info:
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 ***