Date: Wed, 29 Aug 2012 01:11:47 +0200 From: Polytropon <freebsd@edvax.de> To: Stephan Schindel <sts@tp1.rub.de> Cc: "'freebsd-questions@freebsd.org'" <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: GTK and black window content Message-ID: <20120829011147.942e6fff.freebsd@edvax.de> In-Reply-To: <1631524.1NBtPO5guz@freebsd> References: <1631524.1NBtPO5guz@freebsd>
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On Wed, 29 Aug 2012 00:43:45 +0200, Stephan Schindel wrote: > Hey :), > > I have sometimes a problem with GTK applications such as Firefox, Thunderbird > and some others too: The whole application window gets almost black [...] ALMOST black? > [...] and the > only fix is to reboot the system. Does the program window stop responding? Have you tried killing X? Maybe that's not as drastic as rebooting (except of course the system completely refuses to respond, which you didn't mention). > I am using KDE (disabled composite) as my > Desktop and I have got a Nvidia card (propr. driver). Have you tried to temporarily use a different, more simpler window manager (simplest idea: twm) to see if this might be related to KDE? > Does this happen to you as well? I'm using several Gtk applications here on WindowMaker (so no full KDE desktop), and _sometimes_ I have Firefox freezing the whole system; it stops during drawing operations (!) and the only help is to power off the machine. But in my case, I'm quite confident it's related to a malfunctioning graphics card -- also nVidia card + proper driver. However, this does not happen to other Gtk applications (such as Sylpheed), only to Firefox (and games such as Doom 3 demo and Quake 4 demo, but not to OpenArena). -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ...
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