On Wed, 23 Nov 2005 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > jack wrote: > > I'm running testing (etch) on x86. About a week ago, possibly > > Wednesday 16/11 (sorry, I can't be more precise), after updating my > > packages, I've started having problems with "flickering" in X. The > > trouble is, I can't pinpoint the problem down. I'd be happy to file a bug > > report, if only I could understand what's wrong. > > <SNIP interesting ASCII art> > > > > > > > What puzzles me the most is that I have the same problem in an xfce > > session BUT NOT in a kde session. KDE is rock solid. Is seems to me > > that xorg shouldn't be the culprit, but then? I thought maybe the wm > > could be given the blame, but the fact that the problem stays > > unchanged with metacity, sawfish AND xfwm4 make me uncertain. > > > > Hi, > > I am not subscribed to the above list, so I'm writing to you directly. > > One thing that GNOME and XFCE (but not KDE) have in common is that they > use settings daemons. I wonder if there is some strange interplay > between these daemons and your xorg set-up? > > To test this, when in a GNOME session find the process called > gnome-settings-daemon and kill it. (You will lose things like theme and > font customisation, but nothing more). Does this solve your problem? > Alternatively, start the same daemon in a KDE session. Does this > *cause* the problem? > > Liam >
(also forwarded to the debian-user list) Aha. Well spotted. The plot thickens. Killing gnome-settings-daemon under gnome is impossible (it restarts by itself each time), so I can't check, BUT starting it under KDE produces the same symptoms; the symptoms disappear after killing it. On the other hand, after killing xfce-mcs-manager (under xfce) the problem persists. However, the simple fact that the problem is now reproducible is a big step forward. Thanks! Ideas, anyone? Riccardo `Jack' Lucchetti Dipartimento di Economia Università Politecnica delle Marche [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.econ.univpm.it/lucchetti