Janne, Wow! This worked perfectly on my IBM Thinkpad 390X. Thanks for the fix!
/Charlie Do you Ubuntu and/or Open Office? www.ubuntu.com www.openoffice.org On Mon, Sep 15, 2008 at 08:16, Janne Siren <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>wrote: > Hi! > > I can also confirm this bug with IBM600 and IBM600E laptops. Though for > my purposes recompiling xfce4-terminal is not suitable workaround. But I > found easier workaround, I added following lines to /etc/X11/xorg.conf: > > Section "Extensions" > Option "Composite" "Disable" > EndSection > > At least this works with IBM600 (NeoMagic 128XD) and IBM600E (NeoMagic > 256AV). > > I do not know how this composite-extension should work, but for my > understanding RGBA (referring to function gdk_screen_get_rgba_colormap > in the xfce4-terminal code) requires 32bpp framebuffer (24 bits for > color and 8 bits for alpha channel). With these very old chips the > xubuntu 8.04 LTS uses 16 as default depth, meaning 16 bpp framebuffer > with RGB weight 565, thus leaving no space for alpha channel. (Though I > do not know has rgba-colormap of gtk and framebuffer bpp any relation.) > Anyhow: as composite-extension is not working, it still leaves me wonder > why composite-extension is not automatically disabled with these chips > at installation phase or when X11 system starts up. > > best regards, > Janne > > -- > xfce4-terminal window borders / decorations / widgets being incorrectly > drawn (xubuntu 8.04) > https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/194769 > You received this bug notification because you are a direct subscriber > of the bug. > > Status in "xfce4-terminal" source package in Ubuntu: Confirmed > > Bug description: > Binary package hint: xfce4-terminal > > I'm using xubuntu 8.04 (up to date as of 22/02/08) on a thinkpad 600e. I > upgraded from xubuntu 7.10 a few days ago. When I open an xfce4-terminal > window the borders, title bar and widgets are either black or corrupted > multicolours (see attachments), this also effects the xfce4-terminal > preferences window. No other applications have this problem, and changing > the theme does not effect the problem. If i move another window in front of > the terminal window sometimes small pieces of colour from the broken title > bar seem to leak through and appear on the other window. > This is both cosmetic and functional as it hides the minimise, close, etc > widgets and the title. Since this is a commonly used core package in xubuntu > i think it is important. Anyone had the same problem on other hardware? > On my thinkpad the 7.10 version worked flawlessly and gnome -terminal works > as expected, its just this package so i doubt its specific to my machine. > Thanks > -- xfce4-terminal window borders / decorations / widgets being incorrectly drawn (xubuntu 8.04) https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/194769 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
