Bug 27596

Summary:	New windows for a short time show rubbish
Product:	xorg	Reporter:	Eugenij Shkrigunov <eshkrig>
Component:	Server/General	Assignee:	Xorg Project Team <xorg-team>
Status:	RESOLVED MOVED	QA Contact:	Xorg Project Team <xorg-team>
Severity:	normal
Priority:	medium	CC:	hramrach, jlp.bugs
Version:	7.4 (2008.09)
Hardware:	x86-64 (AMD64)
OS:	Linux (All)
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Description Eugenij Shkrigunov 2010-04-12 01:18:14 UTC

Hi!
Sorry for my English.
Start X-server with the parameter -wm significantly increases (a sense of) interactivity of windows operations: resize, move, minimize/maximize, etc.
The document "Xlib - C Language X Interface" is written:
"When no valid contents are available for regions of a window and either the regions are visibe or the server is maintaining backing store, the server automatically tiles the regions with the window's background unless the window has a background of None. If the background is None, the previous screen contents from other windows of the same depth as the window are simply left in place as long as the contents come from the parent of the window or an inferior of the parent."
Unfortunately, for many apps (Firefox, OpenOffice.org, SMPlayer, etc.) it does not work when X-server started with the parameter -wm: new windows for a short time show rubbish, remains in memory, instead of the screen contents from other windows of the same depth.
Please, fix it.
Thank you very much.

Comment 1 Eugenij Shkrigunov 2010-04-12 04:12:47 UTC

At least with xf86-video-ati-6.12.*

Comment 2 Eugenij Shkrigunov 2010-06-03 06:13:30 UTC

and with xf86-video-nv-2.1.17 + nVidia 9400M (ION)

Comment 3 Eugenij Shkrigunov 2011-01-05 05:02:45 UTC

When the composite is disabled (Option "Composite" "Disable") is no problem. xorg-server-1.9.2.902, xf86-video-ati-6.13.2

Comment 4 Michel Dänzer 2011-01-05 06:50:00 UTC

The composite patches Ville Syrjälä has been posting to the xorg-devel list might help with this.

Comment 5 Eugenij Shkrigunov 2011-02-18 10:29:59 UTC

the problem is still there:
xorg-server-1.9.4
xf86-video-ati-6.14.0

Comment 6 Eugenij Shkrigunov 2011-03-20 03:50:15 UTC

the problem is still there:
xorg-server-1.9.5
xf86-video-ati-6.14.1
kernel-2.6.38

Comment 7 Michel Dänzer 2011-03-22 02:57:02 UTC

Might be related to bug 34427.

Comment 8 Eugenij Shkrigunov 2011-05-31 22:14:16 UTC

It got worse: affects almost all the windows.

xorg-server-1.10.2
xf86-video-ati-6.14.2
kernel-2.6.39

Comment 9 Eugenij Shkrigunov 2011-10-03 10:05:53 UTC

the problem is still there:
xorg-server-1.11.1
xf86-video-ati-6.14.2
kernel-3.0.4

Affects almost all the windows as well as window header.

I notice -wm does not work while composite disabled.

Without this feature the GUI is very sluggish.
IMHO: importance should be highest, as fast, responsive GUI is desirable for everyone.

Comment 10 Eugenij Shkrigunov 2011-10-04 10:00:12 UTC

In the search for solutions, I read the discussion
"What's wrong with backing store?"(http://web.archiveorange.com/archive/v/sOyEy1BXp8lmfDmT2oyz)
I understand that backing store functionality offloaded to Composite extension. I reconfigured my computers to use Composite instead of backing store - it works fine.
Sorry for the inconvenience.

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