Re: [Dorset] Rogue browser overwriting my desktop

2014-09-25 Thread John Carlyle-Clarke
I saw some really bad features like this a while ago in Chrome, but I waited a while and it got better again. I'm running Arch, so due to rolling updates you can often just "wait out" bugs and they go away again! I think it's to do with new GPU accelerated rendering tricks, which can expose buggy

Re: [Dorset] Rogue browser overwriting my desktop

2014-09-25 Thread Victor Churchill
On 25 September 2014 12:28, Ralph Corderoy wrote: > > Is there compositing being used, perhaps just for the popups? When did > this start going wrong? > To be honest I don't know whether compositing is being used I'd imagine not, as this is running a fairly low level environment. It just starte

Re: [Dorset] Rogue browser overwriting my desktop

2014-09-25 Thread Ralph Corderoy
Hi Victor, > A popup is generated, but when it goes away the underlying window > content is not restored - or rather, something is restored to the > temporarily overwritten area but it seems to be being written to the X > desktop itself. Is there compositing being used, perhaps just for the popup

[Dorset] Rogue browser overwriting my desktop

2014-09-25 Thread Victor Churchill
I'm on a Dell Vostro laptop with an attached 21" monitor. Running XFCE on Ubuntu 12.04: [1064]victor@victor-Vostro-3550:/nfs/temp/ebookgen/clover$ uname -a Linux victor-Vostro-3550 3.2.0-43-generic #68-Ubuntu SMP Wed May 15 03:33:33 UTC 2013 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux [1065]victor@victor-Vostro