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From: Poncho <poncho@××××××.ch>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] flickering thunderbird and firefox
Date: Fri, 07 Mar 2014 09:36:09
Message-Id: 531992FC.20005@spahan.ch
In Reply to: [gentoo-user] flickering thunderbird and firefox by "Stefan G. Weichinger"
1 On 19.02.2014 10:55, Stefan G. Weichinger wrote:
2 >
3 > For a week or so I see flickering applications here.
4 >
5 > I thought it would help to upgrade nvidia-drivers but even todays update
6 > didn't help.
7 >
8 > I rebuilt thunderbird-24.3.0 and nvidia-drivers-334.16-r7 ... I also
9 > didn't find anything matching at bgo.
10 >
11 > This is gnome-3.10, I know, masked stuff ... but it worked without a
12 > problem until this.
13 >
14 > Other windows like terminals or browsers (chrome, opera) are not
15 > affected ... but in thunderbird I get flickering message windows which
16 > is rather annoying.
17 >
18 > Sorry, I don't know how to describe it in a better way. Does anyone have
19 > an idea? Some mozilla-specific problem ;-) ?
20 >
21 > Stefan
22 >
23 >
24
25 it may be you're hitting this clutter bug:
26
27 https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=724788
28
29 https://git.gnome.org/browse/clutter/commit/?h=clutter-1.16&id=6665f47d66a871b6e1a5f4200282f42da043a0e8
30
31 https://devtalk.nvidia.com/default/topic/690704/linux/-334-16-parts-of-the-ui-randomly-flicker-when-moving-the-mouse/

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Re: [gentoo-user] flickering thunderbird and firefox "Stefan G. Weichinger" <lists@×××××.at>