I wrote: > I have some minor problems launching gnome (gnome3?) facilities using ctwm > in F22. I use the xfce distribution because it seems to be relatively > lightweight. > > I wonder whether I am not setting up ctwm initialisation properly, and have > been searching unsuccessfully for a web site providing relevant advice. > > .... > > Mostly they work but sometimes the text does not display properly on the > panels that come up. I can't find any pattern in this. When it happens, > re-starting X may or may not fix it.
I switched to fedora24 hoping that would solve the problem, but it did not help. Eventually I tracked down a temporary solution -- temporary because it should not be necessary: Based on instructions found here: https://fedoramagazine.org/solution-graphics-issues-intel-graphics-chipsets-fedora-22/ I created a file /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/20-intel.conf containing: Section "Device" Identifier "Intel Graphics" Driver "intel" Option "AccelMethod" "uxa" EndSection Apparently the default is now "sna" instead of "uxa" and "sna" does not work well on all machines with intel graphics. (Mine is a six year old Dell latitude E6410, still mostly doing exactly what I want). I don't have this problem on my newer Desktop PC with intel graphics. There's a bug report here: https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=98108 Apparently this is being worked on. Anyhow, I am glad to report that it had nothing to do with ctwm. Aaron
