On Thu, Jun 03, 2021 at 10:01:43AM +0100, jdm wrote: > On Wed, 2 Jun 2021 11:14:40 +0100 > jdm <j...@jdm.myzen.co.uk> wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > At the weekend I updated my system and after reboot some of my apps > > have lots of black black squares/rectangles all over the place, > > covering all of the app window and making email difficult to write. > > > > Initially I thought this was a Wayland problem as using Wayfire but > > switched to X11 desktop and still had same issue. > > > > Trying all my apps this looks to be a GTK related issues as happening > > with claws-mail (worst), gkrellm, gcolor2, Bluefish etc. QT/EFL apps > > seem to be fine (qtfm, keepass). Firefox-bin works just fine, oddly. > > > > Anyone else seen this. I see a thread talking about GTK slots but not > > sure if this is related. > > > > I've rebuilt all gtk related packages which has not helped. > > > > John > > > > Noticed a minor oddity with sddm where text not rendering correctly so > decided not a gtk problem but strange that qt apps where hardly > affected. > > Updated mesa to latest version (currently masked) and issue > has gone away. > > John >
What version of mesa was causing the problem, what version did you upgrade to, and what are your useflags? I've been having similar issues, but I'm on the current (21.1.1) version of mesa. Did you upgrade drivers anywhere?
