On Sun, Feb 10, 2019 at 11:16:03PM +0100, Erling Westenvik wrote: > Hi, > After upgrading to todays snapshot (February 10th) I experience some rather > ugly shadow artifacts and color distortions when using compton(1) under > cwm(1). > It may perhaps best be described by linking to an issue report from April 2018 > at github: > > https://github.com/chjj/compton/issues/487 > > and from that page - a link to a screendump showing exactly what I experience: > > https://framapic.org/dHfk2217huGs/NIiGKJsfnz52.jpg > > The problem can be reproduced by specifying "glx" as backend in compton(1). > It > appear to have been major glx-related imports in Xenocara on January 29th > 2019. > My previous snapshot was older than that, perhaps as old as from December > 2018, > but for certain newer than the previous bulk import which appears to have > been October 23rd 2018. > > My graphics card is a ATI Radeon HD 5770. Dmesg below. > > Not sure how to attack this. Help/ideas appreciated. [...]
Yep, I noticed the same with compton after the update to Mesa 18 in snaps. I think the following GitHub issue is actually the more fitting one: https://github.com/chjj/compton/issues/477 For me, switching to xrender backend for compton is a satisfactory solution until the freedesktop bug referenced in the above link [1] has been addressed. [1] https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=104597
