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From: walt <w41ter@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: [gentoo-user] Re: flickering thunderbird and firefox
Date: Wed, 19 Feb 2014 13:40:11
Message-Id: 5304B434.3000303@gmail.com
In Reply to: [gentoo-user] flickering thunderbird and firefox by "Stefan G. Weichinger"
1 On 02/19/2014 01:55 AM, 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 Until what, exactly? I use qlop -l to review the list of recent updates,
15 which gives me clues about what packages to suspect.
16
17 Also, you should try thunderbird-bin to see if the official build has the
18 same problem.
19
20 > Other windows like terminals or browsers (chrome, opera) are not
21 > affected ... but in thunderbird I get flickering message windows which
22 > is rather annoying.
23 >
24 > Sorry, I don't know how to describe it in a better way. Does anyone have
25 > an idea? Some mozilla-specific problem ;-) ?
26 >
27 > Stefan
28 >
29 >
30 >

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