Text does not update

[gokee2]

Binary package hint: compiz

I am using Kubuntu 8.1 upgraded from Hardy.

With compiz on using kde4;

The konsole would not always show me new text. So if I did cd /home I might see

"gokee2@speedy:~$ cd /home"

Instead of:

"gokee2@speedy:~$ cd /home
gokee2@speedy:/home$ "

This would happen about 80-90% of the time with any command. So I would not see any output or I would only see some of the output until I clicked on Konsole. If I clicked or pressed enter the output would show.

Also in thunderbird when clicking on a new message the message pane might or might not update to show the message I had clicked on. If it did not I would have to expand (or unexpanded if already expanded) the headers (I have long headers or something turned on for Thunderbird) for the message. Clicking in the message pane was not enough to do it.

I think both problems are the same problem but am not sure. Once I did killall compiz.real (anyone know a better way to kill compiz?) both problems went away. However I now have problems with taskbar content going away. (reported as bug https://bugs.launchpad.net/tagua/+bug/293492)

[Fabian A. Scherschel (fabsh)]

Hi!

Do you have KDE compositing running at the same time? Are you using dual screens perchance?

Thanks for reporting!
Fab

[gokee2 (adsarebad)]

Yes I run dual head. No I don`t think I have any KDE compositing on but I am not really sure where I would turn it on/off at.

[Fabian A. Scherschel (fabsh)]

OK, can you try with only one screen? Compiz often has problems on dual screen configurations and I have had stuff like that happen with two screens & Compiz in Gnome.

KDE's KWin window manager has compositing effects (I think enabled by default in KDE4). Since I don't have KDE4 handy right now, I can't tell you exactly where to check but it's in the System Settings somewhere under Appearance -> Advanced or something.

[gokee2 (adsarebad)]

I went to system settings desktop and unchecked Enable desktop effects. I noticed in advanced session manager I had kwin instead of compiz selected for my window manager so I changed that to compiz as well. I logged out/in and disabled one of my monitors, but still had the same bug.

[Fabian A. Scherschel (fabsh)]

OK. Thanks for your efforts!

So it's not dual monitors and it's presumably not a clash of two compositing WMs. Can someone with KDE try to reproduce this, then?

[Tal (terminator14)]

I installed ubuntu 8.10 a few days ago and got konsole from the repos and I have the same problem with it not being able to refresh half the time until i click my mouse on it... Running gnome, and compiz as well. If I do "killall compiz.real" the problem goes away, but I'm not too happy about killing my compiz. I don't have a dual screen setup, or kde on the system that is experiencing this problem. If there's anything you guys want me to post to help out, like some specific logs or something, let me know and I'd be happy to do it, if I have time...

[Michele Mangili (mangilimic)]

Hi!

I have experienced the same problem. Some parts of the screen didn't refresh, and it was extremely annoying when typing in console.

I experienced that problem using both one monitor or twin view mode with 2 monitors. Anyway, I can reproduce this bug with nvidia-glx-177 installed, while it works great for me when using both nvidia-glx-173 or nvidia-glx-180 . So I'm wondering whether this report is a duplicate of bug #269904 .

Which video driver are you using? Which video card have you got?

Could you please add your ~/.xsession-errors, /var/log/Xorg.0.log and the output of lspci -vvnn to your bug report as separate attachments? For other debugging instructions please have a look to https://wiki.ubuntu.com/DebuggingCompiz. Thanks in advance.

[Tal (terminator14)]

I'm using an 8800GT with the "NVIDIA accelerated graphics driver (version 177)" installed from the "Hardware Drivers" utility built into Ubuntu. I'm guessing that's nvidia-glx-177...

I couldn't find a way to attach 3 files at once so I'll just split it into 3 comments. This one has xsession-errors attached.

[Tal (terminator14)]

Here's /var/log/Xorg.0.log

[Tal (terminator14)]

And the output of "lspci -vvnn"

[Michele Mangili (mangilimic)]

Hello Tal!

Could you please test if replacing nvidia-glx-177 with nvidia-glx-173 (or nvidia-glx-180) solves your issue?

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better.

[Tal (terminator14)]

Replacing nvidia-glx-177 with nvidia-glx-180 has almost entirely solved the issue. I can easily navigate through folders and run commands but once or twice in the several min I tested this, particularly when running something like "cat textfile.txt | more", the screen would freeze up when hitting space to go to the next page, and only clicking on the screen helps. After it did that, once the "cat" command finished running, almost all commands would freeze up the screen again (the problem came back) until I restarted konsole, at which point the commands ran fine.

[Tal (terminator14)]

After a few more minutes of playing around with commands in the konsole, even the previously mentioned "cat textfile.txt | more" command doesn't freeze anything up, so I don't know if that was a one time thing or...

[Michele Mangili (mangilimic)]

Hello, Tal!

Thanks for your answer!

Can I mark this bug report as a duplicate of bug #269904 , since your problem is related to that report?

In the meantime, feel free to test your system and check if everything works as expected!

[Tal (terminator14)]

Bug #269904 sounds similar, yet different. That bug seems to be caused by compiz and the particular nvidia driver version we narrowed it down to, but they seem to also be having refresh problems with nautilus and firefox, which I have never faced. Not sure if it's a duplicate, but it definitely sounds very similar. Some people commented about the konsole there too.

[Robert Ancell (robert-ancell)]

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. You reported this bug a while ago and there hasn't been any activity in it recently. We were wondering if this is still an issue for you. Can you try with the latest Ubuntu release? Thanks in advance.

[Tal (terminator14)]

A while back I started using the built in gnome-terminal, which I configured to my liking so I haven't really used "konsole" much to know if the bug is still there. I did however just today install it quickly from the repos to do a quick test run and see if the bug persists. In the few minutes of fast directory changing and file content reading through "cat", I've noticed no problems with refreshing like I did before.

I'm running Ubuntu 9.04, Gnome, a single 24" screen at 1920x1200, the "2.6.28-13-generic" kernel, nvidia driver version 180.44 (shows as version 180 in the "Hardware Drivers" app), and the newest version of "konsole" available in the repos.

[Tal (terminator14)]

Oh yeah, and I'm still running Compiz as well

[Gleepwurp (yannick-moussette)]

Hi All,

stumbled upon this bug report while trying to find an answer for my refresh issues for Konsole.

I'm running 9.04 upgraded from 8.10, dual-head with compiz enabled on an NVIDIA with driver 180.44..

Was this ever resolved?

Let me know if there's Anything I can do to help.

Thanks,

Yannick.

[Travis Watkins (amaranth)]

Can you try enabling "Force synchronization between X and GL" option in the Workarounds plugin and see if that helps? Install the compizconfig-settings-manager package to get the ccsm tool to change that setting, if you don't already have it.

[jhfhlkjlj (fdsuufijjejejejej-deactivatedaccount)]

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. We are sorry that we do not always have the capacity to look at all reported bugs in a timely manner. There have been many changes in Ubuntu since that time you reported the bug and your problem may have been fixed with some of the updates. It would help us a lot if you could test it on a currently supported Ubuntu version. When you test it and it is still an issue, kindly upload the updated logs by running apport-collect <bug #> and any other logs that are relevant for this particular issue.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

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