On Mon, Apr 14, 2014 at 05:20:12AM +0200, meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote > was updated and I installed Linux 3.12.17 (vanilla) and recompiled > the nvidia-drivers and finally the X11-modules, a really annoying > thing happened: > > When a program uses the screen overlay technique (right word???) to > display (mainly) videos (me-tv, flashplayer, Blender while rendering) > ANY and everything on any desktop, which has a black background (mutt, > urxvt to only name a few) displays the video even the video > application runs on a different desktop. > > Handling the desktops then becomes a masterpieces of focus and > counting.... ;) > > I am using openbox, nvidia-drivers, linux 3.12.17 vanilla, me-tv, > flashplayer, blender (daily build taken from blenders buildbot). > > What can I do to get rid of this effect?
This seems to be a common problem with nvidia video cards using the nvidia binary blobs. I ran into it some time ago. If you don't want to get rid of the nvidia card, try the Nouveau open-source drivers. You won't get all the acceleration that the Nvidia binaries provide, but at least you probably won't get the problems you have now. -- Walter Dnes <waltd...@waltdnes.org> I don't run "desktop environments"; I run useful applications
