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This is reproducible on the live desktop from ubuntu-12.04.5.iso running
on a Thinkpad T42 (radeon graphics) - boot the iso, start xterm and the
typed text is immediately corrupted with characters being replaced with
white boxes, but dragging the window causes the boxes to be replaced by
the
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Just some additional info that might help narrowing down the cause.
I see this same effect on a machine running Arch Linux.
On this machine I use urxvt on top of the i3 window manager. (So not
Gnome, KDE or Unity).
It happens when text gets scrolled in the terminal window.
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This seems to have been fixed on saucy/trusty.
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I don't see any changes that would have fixed it, but it's quite
possible that other changes could adjust the timing such that the bug is
harder to reproduce.
I've got a Q600 handy, though, so give me a few minutes to load up Saucy
onto my test system and I'll check.
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Just tested on 13.10, and I can still reproduce the problem. It's less
frequent on my system than it did on 12.04, but it still shows up every
so often.
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This is very likely the same race condition as bug #269904.
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Same issue: Ubuntu 12.04.03 with the nouveau drivers.
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I am using Ubuntu 12.04. I regularly see this problem in gnome-terminal
and gedit. It's really a pain. And the work around (using workarounds in
ccsm) does effect the desktop responsiveness.
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Milestone: 0.9.10.0 = 0.9.11.0
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Hi. I've had good luck with the following workaround.
I am using nvidia-binary drivers on Precise mainly, but have tested on Saucy a
bit.
- Install compizconfig-settings-manager.
- Run 'ccsm'.
- Goto Utility-Workarounds-Force full screen redraws (buffer swap) on repaint
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I've given up and switched away. There's been no response from anyone
about anything related to this bug in months and it's far too painful
for me to deal with any longer. If/when someone posts a fix or
workaround or something, I'll try it.
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According to comments on the gnome bugzilla this is supposed to be (at
least partly?) addressed in Gnome 3.8. has anyone tested this? Ever
since I upgraded from Ubuntu 12.04, this has been driving me nuts since
I do 90% of my work in xterms and with Emacs.
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This bug is easily reproducible using nvidia-binary drivers (even the latest
experimental) on Saucy/Precise; however you need to set your nvidia driver into
a low performance state. You can use an xorg.conf with the following:
Section Device
Identifier Device0
Driver nvidia
Man I hate launchpad.
is this https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=664858?
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I can also confirm that I see this on ubuntu precise w/ cinnamon (non-
2D) (so, I think compiz is a red herring).
The effect is especially pronounced when scrolling in vim in gnome-
terminal.
LMK if there's any other debugging info I can provide.
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This problem is reproducible with programs that link against libtinfo
(from ncurses), like gnome-terminal, xterm or gvim, but it is not
reproducible with programs that don't, like konsole.
It's assigned here to compiz, probably because changing some compiz
settings makes it sometimes go away, or
This bug was affecting me as well. Bruno Haible's workaround (switch
Compositing to XRender) seems to have worked for me. I was seeing the
effect in simple ls -a (which doesn't scroll) in xterm, as well as in
emacs running in an xterm.
I'm running Kubuntu 12.04, fully uptodate.
3.2.0-37-generic
Perhaps what I'm seeing in bug 1077639 is a duplicate of this bug ? Text
rendering issues have been present for me in both Ubuntu 12.04 and now
in Ubuntu 12.10 using nvidia drivers. Emacs is the worst affected of all
applications I use regularly. There are also some occasional glitches in
I'm afraid switching distributions might not help since this is
happening on Gentoo as well. The corruption is less pervasive in gnome-
terminal, and that's what I've been using for now, but it happens in a
number of other applications (like gvim) as well (but in many others it
doesn't). I am sort
Just this Friday I got around to testing compiz 0.9.8.6 on Gentoo (mesa
upgrades did not help), and it fixes this bug for me. Unfortunately
0.9.8 on Gentoo has issues with several plugins not working correctly
(e.g. place windows not working at all, all windows open at top left
corner), so I'll
This bug makes using a command-line shell from an xterm window extremely
annoying. So annoying that I'm considering switching distributions.
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The attached screen shot shows two views of the same window. The one in
the foreground shows the problems.
How to duplicate the problem.
1. Click on XTERM on the menu bar to open a new xterm window
2. Hold down the Enter key for 20 lines or so. That's what you see: the prompt
disappears and the
Please ignore my comments above; my issue is actually #888666. Apologies
for the noise.
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I'm experiencing this issue (or something _very_ similar) in urxvt under
gnome-shell with nvidia-current 302.17-0ubuntu1~precise~xup2, whereas I
never noticed it when I was using Unity. I don't have compositing or
transparency enabled in urxvt. I don't recall seeing this issue with
gnome-terminal;
That didn't take long. Less than half an hour and I've already had the
same thing in gnome-terminal.
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I continue to see this issue in gnome-terminal even when using unity 2d.
I'm using the nvidia-current 295.40-0ubuntu1.1 driver.
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When this gets really bad and it's impossible to use Emacs, I've found
that ALT-F2 (to pull up the Please enter a command: prompt), type r
(to restart gnome-shell) fixes the problem temporarily.
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I've had this problem for months. I'm not using Unity, though it is
installed.
chris@chris-m1730 ~$ dpkg -l|egrep ^ii
*(nvidia|\unity-|libunity|ttf-ubuntu-font-family)|sort|awk '{printf %s :
%s\n, $2, $3}'
libunity-2d-private0 : 5.10.0-0ubuntu1
libunity4 : 3.8.4-0ubuntu2
libunity9 :
I have this bug on Gentoo, running xterm under compiz, Radeon card with
gallium drivers. Before hardware upgrade the system had nVidia card with
nVidia's proprietary drivers, software otherwise the same, and it did
not have this bug.
When I have time I plan to try upgrading to Gentoo's unstable
I tried switching back to unity 3D this morning and haven't seen the
problem whilst using vim, gvim, urxvt and Emacs (all with Ubuntu Mono
font) extensively. I am running an up-to-date 12.04 system.
Package details:
$ dpkg -l|egrep ^ii
*(nvidia|\unity-|libunity|ttf-ubuntu-font-family)|sort|awk
I reported #894083 but I think it's a duplicate of this.
I find turning off compiz, or setting 'compizgeneralforce full screen
redraws' works around this issue, but they're neither ideal.
'Fix screen updates in XGL with fglrx' significantly reduces the
frequency with which I experience this, but
Also, if it's in the nvidea driver then it's also in radeon: I have
radeon, and I'm seeing it.
Shouldn't this bug have compiz listed as an affected project?
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I'm seeing something that sounds similar to this (I think), but I'm not
using Unity at all. Using Xorg, xdm and fvwm and periodically I get
black and white blocks of corruption all over the screen. Forcing a
redraw fixes *most* of the blocks, but not all.
It *seems* that if the system is busy
For me, to switch to Unity-2D (as there is no option in the gears icon when
logged in):
* log out
* gear icon: change session to Unity-2d
* log in
And if you need to configure Unity-2d:
http://marianochavero.wordpress.com/2011/10/14/unity-2d-settings-ui-for-ubuntu-11-10-oneiric-ocelot/
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Comment #53 is also reproducible for me, on openSUSE 12.1 with KDE 4 and an ATI
Radeon card and driver.
Run xterm, ls -l of a large directory, scroll back a couple of times, and you
see
some lines missing.
The workaround:
KDE control center - Desktop effects - Advanced - Compositing type.
Set
I have also been having this bug. I have tried quite a few things to
narrow it down but I could not find anything too definitive.
Basically, to reproduce it, I just go into a big php file and search for
a string that will cause vim to jump around the file a lot. Every once
in a while, when it
I also see this problem with Unity. However, I have yet to see it
manifest with unity-2d. Using the 'nvidia' Xorg driver in both cases.
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I see this same problem on with Oneiric on a Dell e6500 laptop with
nVidia Quadro NVS 160M1 graphics. I had no problems in Natty. It goes
away with Unity 2D. It renders terminal and emacs almost unusable.
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My dev setup:
nvidia drivers
ubuntu 11.10 64bit
xterm
vim
I've tried two possible solutions mentioned here:
http://lists.clug.org.za/pipermail/clug-tech/2011-June/045329.html
Which are:
CCSM - Workarounds - Fix screen updated in XGL with fglrx
CCSM - Workarounds - Force synchronization between X
I do find that if I turn off syntax colors in vim the problem seems
to go away
Sorry, scratch that, I'm getting the problem a bit at the moment with
syntax highlighting off.
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Switching to Unity 2D (*) seems to solve the problem for me. Can
anyone else comment on their experiences?
(*) - To switch to Unity 2D, click the gear icon by your name on the
lightdm display manager and select Unity 2D. If there is no entry for
Unity 2D:
1) Login
2) Open a terminal
3) Type,
LP#890903 looks like the same issue.
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I've seen this problem in Kubuntu with xterms in kde4 just doing ls in a
fairly full directory (25 lines of ls output in 4 columns). I'm using
Noveau drivers too. My xterm background is white.
Sometimes the text in the top few rows is just gone, and the lost area
appears to be a rectangular
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To make the corruption disappear, all I did was click the window
maximize button twice, forcing an X redraw.
Notice that in the corrupted image, there is a strange, aside from the
obviously missing text both above *and* below the cursor position, there
is an odd artifact showing just to the right
Note that the images in #20 and #21 were with the proprietary nvidia
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** Tags added: apport-collected compiz-0.9 oneiric running-unity ubuntu
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Using tmux with urxvt results in frequent screen corruption.
I am running tmux as tmux -2 to enable 256 colour mode and my
.tmux.conf contains:
set-option -g
After switching to the Nouveau drivers, I am *still* seeing the problem
(in irssi with tmux + urxvt).
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When you file bugs against xorg, please always include your kernel and X
logs, photo examples, and other relevant information. The command:
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should help gather this information. The photos you'll need to take
manually (generally X corruption at the driver level doesn't
Just seen the problem in gvim too.
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Never seen this running Emacs on Unity 2D on ATI hardware.
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Tested with metacity (metacity --replace) configured as the
compositing manager (gconf-editor /apps/metacity/general and checking
compositing_manager).
In a plain gnome-terminal, I'm still seeing the problem when recalling
command-line history (ctrl+r and start typing). The corruption however
This seems like a damage event issue (as it's also affecting metacity
composited, not just compiz). It might be a bug in X if it's affecting
more than one app?
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This problem also affects the default ubuntu terminal - gnome-terminal.
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This project is no longer relevant.
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To be clear this bug does not affect tmux IMHO, but seemingly you cannot
remove a project in LP once you've added it.
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I've been running metacity for a few hours now and have not seen the
problem yet. This does suggest unity might be involved in this bug.
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Right - I am not 90% convinced this is a unity bug. As soon as I
switched back to Unity 3d, the problem returns.
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Wondering if this is an X11 problem?
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