Date: Thu, 22 Nov 2012 15:33:27 +0100 From: David Demelier <demelier.david@gmail.com> To: freebsd@dreamchaser.org Cc: FreeBSD Mailing List <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: after youtube .swf, black xterm text => transparent Message-ID: <CAO%2BPfDcw5_4M=NsmF172RSw%2BL9SY=Bjx9m8KwgxhOz9O8jVHNQ@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <50AC4984.9050503@dreamchaser.org> References: <50AC4984.9050503@dreamchaser.org>
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Do you have a nvidia card ? If yes right click on the youtube image and disable hardware acceleration, it will probably solve it (solved for me) 2012/11/21 Gary Aitken <freebsd@dreamchaser.org> > After doing a number of port upgrades to try to get firefox 16 to play > youtube audio again (still doesn't), I now see that when I put an xterm > window over a particular portion of the display, the black areas on the > xterm are transparent, and are showing a portion of a youtube page > which is no longer playing but which is still open on either a visible > or a non-visible (i.e. not the current) tab. > > The image is from the end of the following page: > > https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aHuYmhY-5-g > > and the video content is > https://s.ytimg.com/yts/swfbin/watch_as3-vfl1ubMZd.swf > > Anyone else seeing this problem? > > Hmm... this is weird. If I iconify everything except a couple of > xterms, xwininfo clicked on the region where the image *was*, which now > has only the wm (xfce4) background, the xwininfo gives the window id > for the background. > > This is particularly noticeable in the xfce terminal emulator, 0.4.8, > as it comes up with an entirely black background. > > Gimp, firefox and thunderbird windows don't have the problem, nor does the > wm header. > > I'm guessing this is a result of using the XVideo extension, and not using > opengl in the wm, or something like that, based on this article: > > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/X_video_extension > > Can anyone shed some light on this and how to prevent it? > > p.s. I can't seem to find how to tell what options a port is installed > with, and what the defaults are. I know it's there somewhere... > > Thanks, > > Gary > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to " > freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" > -- Demelier David
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