On Thu, Oct 23, 2014 at 12:14:03PM +0200, Marc Espie wrote: > This has been discussed internally, but chromium > is partly broken these days. > > Most specifically, windows refresh does strange things under > some circumstances. > > The circumstances are well-known (thanks to matthieu@): > "modern" systems use some composition manager for eye-candy > on their display. So if you're using a shiny window manager, > you won't see an issue. > > Old-style window managers, such as fvwm, fvwm2 (from ports) > and cwm don't. Hence the breakage. > > Work-around: start a composition manager, such as xcompmgr > from base xenocara. Cry since you lost your background image > or moire pattern (fvwm-root, from ports, does know about > composition managers). > > We're currently in the process of reporting the problem upstream. > > Outside of OpenBSD, most people don't use primitive window managers, > so they don't see the issue.
For information. I'm using Slackware 14.1 with fvwm2 and Chromium, I see no issue at all. > It probably started around when chromium switched to Aura for its > gfx system... -- Stéphane Tougard <steph...@unices.org>
