Screen corruption in Firefox and Thunderbird when using Wayland
| Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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| xwayland (Ubuntu) |
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Undecided
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Bug Description
After upgrading from Ubuntu 23.10 to 24.04, Firefox and Thunderbird both suffer from screen corruption when running with Wayland and virtual desktops. The main windows are fine, but their tab bars show old data from other apps in other virtual desktops.
Attached are screenshots of this. The screenshots don't really show the corruption, but they do show the areas that are corrupted as a grey "chessboard" pattern.
Apologies if this is filed against the wrong package. If so, please re-assign it.
ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 24.04
Package: xwayland 2:23.2.4-1build3
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Uname: Linux 6.8.0-22-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.28.0-0ubuntu1
Architecture: amd64
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CurrentDesktop: ubuntu:GNOME
Date: Sun Apr 14 10:53:11 2024
InstallationDate: Installed on 2020-07-14 (1370 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 20.04 LTS "Focal Fossa" - Release amd64 (20200423)
SourcePackage: xwayland
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to noble on 2024-04-11 (3 days ago)
| Alistair Cunningham (acunningham) wrote | #1 |
| Alistair Cunningham (acunningham) wrote | #2 |
This appears to only happen if Firefox and Thunderbird are set to use the "System theme - auto" theme. Manually selecting either the light or dark theme seems to work around this problem.