On 2025-06-28 13:59:20 +0300, Rémi Denis-Courmont wrote: > Le lauantaina 28. kesäkuuta 2025, 3.18.49 Itä-Euroopan kesäaika Vincent > Lefevre a écrit : > > When a video was being played in VLC and I opened a new Firefox window > > with Ctrl-N partly over the VLC window or close to it (I use FVWM > > manual placement), garbage (more or less a set of rectangles) appeared > > in place of the video for a few seconds. This was always reproducible. > > This issue never occurred when I opened an Xterm window instead of a > > Firefox window. > > That sounds like a problem with the WM,
The WM might make the bug apparent, but it is not responsible for the display. > or perhaps the compositor I do not use a compositor. > or display drivers, I could try on other machines that have different display drivers. > especially when you add: > > > The [xterm] window does not need to be close to the VLC window. I think that the cause is just that the display is locked. That was frequent in the past with modal dialogs, but I don't know if such dialogs still exist so that I could try. -- Vincent Lefèvre <vinc...@vinc17.net> - Web: <https://www.vinc17.net/> 100% accessible validated (X)HTML - Blog: <https://www.vinc17.net/blog/> Work: CR INRIA - computer arithmetic / Pascaline project (LIP, ENS-Lyon)
