crimesaucer
September 25th, 2008, 08:35 PM
I have a question for xfce4 users.....
Over the last 2 years of using xfce4, I noticed that once Firefox 3 started using the Linux theme, Firefox does a weird thing with the gtk when it opens and closes.
It sometimes opens as 3 boxes, just like the "startx" does before you install a desktop environment to see if your xorg is configured correctly..... (like the 3 different size terminals and the mini clock after you run the command "startx" while in a tty console).
I also notice xfce4 has a weird "sideways" breakage with the right click menu and even on the webpages when I scroll.... (like a diagonal tearing). The menu will drop down with a diagonal mess that quickly fixes it's self and then stays fixed. When scrolling down a long web page, everything looks good and feels normal and then there is a quick breakage in the middle of the page (also diagonal). It's like a BIG version of the menu.
It's done that on i386 xubuntu, i686 Arch, and Arch x86_64. All of these with xfce4 and compositing.
It also DOESN'T do this with gnome metacity (and metacity-compositing) or compiz-fusion.
I prefer xfce4 with compositing to compiz-fusion or metacity, but the diagonal tearing thing when scrolling web-pages is a deal breaker for me. So I end up on xfce4 with compiz-fusion.
Does anybody else get these weird errors?
Over the last 2 years of using xfce4, I noticed that once Firefox 3 started using the Linux theme, Firefox does a weird thing with the gtk when it opens and closes.
It sometimes opens as 3 boxes, just like the "startx" does before you install a desktop environment to see if your xorg is configured correctly..... (like the 3 different size terminals and the mini clock after you run the command "startx" while in a tty console).
I also notice xfce4 has a weird "sideways" breakage with the right click menu and even on the webpages when I scroll.... (like a diagonal tearing). The menu will drop down with a diagonal mess that quickly fixes it's self and then stays fixed. When scrolling down a long web page, everything looks good and feels normal and then there is a quick breakage in the middle of the page (also diagonal). It's like a BIG version of the menu.
It's done that on i386 xubuntu, i686 Arch, and Arch x86_64. All of these with xfce4 and compositing.
It also DOESN'T do this with gnome metacity (and metacity-compositing) or compiz-fusion.
I prefer xfce4 with compositing to compiz-fusion or metacity, but the diagonal tearing thing when scrolling web-pages is a deal breaker for me. So I end up on xfce4 with compiz-fusion.
Does anybody else get these weird errors?