On Tue, Jan 10, 2006 at 04:04:31PM -0500, Andrew Conkling wrote: >On 1/10/06, Magnus Therning <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> I'm observing some strange behaviour in X. Lines appearing, rectangular >> boxes appearing... this is on an up-to-date Arch system, [current], >> [extra] and [community] only (no [testing] at all!). I'm running the >> Arch kernel. I've stuck a screen shot at [1]. >> >> Any other info that might help solving this? >> >> /M >> >> 1. http://therning.org/magnus_files/broken.png > >It's really hard to tell from your screenshot what's going on. I'm >assuming that NONE of those lines in the background should be there, >but it doesn't look like the lines are on anything but the background >(i.e. not on the icons or panels). Could you try no bg at all and a >lighter theme to confirm? If the lines match the color of your panels, >I'd be even more baffled.... O_o
I'll do that tomorrow. >And the only X artifacts I've ever seen disappeared by drawing over >them (e.g. moving a window over them). Is that the case here? If not, >do they display over open windows or behind them? The appear over windows (straight throw pages shown in Firefox every now and then). They sometimes disappear when triggering a redraw, but not always. Sometimes it helps to switch from X (vc/7) to console (vc/1-6). I'll be back with a screenshot on a lighter theme ASAP. /M -- Magnus Therning (OpenPGP: 0xAB4DFBA4) [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://therning.org/magnus Software is not manufactured, it is something you write and publish. Keep Europe free from software patents, we do not want censorship by patent law on written works. As we enjoy great advantages from the inventions of others we should be glad of an opportunity to serve others by any invention of ours, and this we should do freely and generously. -- Benjamin Franklin
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