Patchwork garbage on screen

[Alexander Jones]

Binary package hint: compiz

Often when scrolling web pages, bits of a page get "left behind". Flicking through pages in Compiz Config Settings Manager shows bits of UI left over all over the place. When you cause the Widgets to expose, by hovering the mouse over them, the screen correctly updates. Moving the window shows everything correctly.

Does not affect Metacity, either with or without compositing.

If I had to guess, I'd say this might be a bug in how Compiz deals with the XDamage events. Given that Metacity manages fine, I'd think the events are sane and it's just Compiz's problem.

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: amd64
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 8.10
NonfreeKernelModules: ath_hal
Package: compiz 1:0.7.7+git20080807-0ubuntu7
PackageArchitecture: all
ProcEnviron:
 PATH=/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/games:/home/username/.local/bin
 LANG=en_GB.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: compiz
Uname: Linux 2.6.27-3-generic x86_64

[Fernando Miguel (fernandomiguel)]

Yes yes yes.... i'm badly affected by this bug, especially when using KMail on Gnome.
I keep hitting ctrl+alt+down to refresh my screen.

Compiz Version: 1:0.7.7+git20080807-0ubuntu6
nvidia-common Version: 0.2.3.
uname -a Linux 2.6.27-1-generic #1 SMP Sat Aug 23 23:19:01 UTC 2008 x86_64 GNU/Linux

[Fernando Miguel (fernandomiguel)]

isnt this a dupe of https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/compiz/+bug/269904 ?