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FS#7979 - Compositing window managers cause scrolling corruption.

Attached to Project: Arch Linux
Opened by Robert Howard (iBertus) - Sunday, 09 September 2007, 03:15 GMT
Last edited by Roman Kyrylych (Romashka) - Sunday, 09 September 2007, 11:07 GMT
Task Type Bug Report
Category Packages: Extra
Status Closed
Assigned To No-one
Architecture All
Severity Medium
Priority Normal
Reported Version 2007.08 Don't Panic
Due in Version Undecided
Due Date Undecided
Percent Complete 100%
Votes 0
Private No

Details

Description: Any firefox-based browser will have screen corruption while scrolling under a compositing window manager. This is a bug in the current xorg-server package and a patch to fix this has been submitted to git. This patch is attached below.


Additional info:
* xorg-server 1.2.0-5
* firefox 2.0.0.6-1


Steps to reproduce: To reproduce, simply scroll using autoscroll (pressing in with middle button and dragging) in firefox. Autoscroll "circle" will repeat and tear. Also visible with some websites with static images.
   xserver-scroll-lag.patch (2.2 KiB)
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Closed by  Roman Kyrylych (Romashka)
Sunday, 09 September 2007, 11:07 GMT
Reason for closing:  Fixed
Additional comments about closing:  Should be fixed in Xorg 7.3. Please re-open if not.

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