This works on my 600e and 380z Thanks very much :) would be nice if it was properly fixed / automatic as there are still many thousands of laptops with this chipset in use, and Xubuntu is an ideal distro for them.
2008/9/16 714snoopy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > 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 direct subscriber > of the bug. > -- Phrase of the [period of time 'till I change it]: "I would love to change the world, but they won't give me the source code." -- 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
