[compiz] White Boarders in AIGLX on non-decorated window types

David Reveman davidr at novell.com
Thu Apr 19 14:44:57 PDT 2007


On Thu, 2007-04-19 at 23:24 +0200, Vasek Potocek wrote:
> David Reveman napsal:
> > On Wed, 2007-04-18 at 19:25 +0200, Vasek Potocek wrote:
> >>>> Oops, I haven't finished my e-mail... The reason why I posted just another workaround is that I consider it "less 
> >>>> workaround" than the former fix (supposing this really was the same problem) and that it helps in more situations (like 
> >>>> in GTK+ drag-drop, RYX said he had problems with this). But it's really hacky, it should apply depending on whether the 
> >>>> described circumstances really happen and so, but as I said, it's temporary and only for the interested. I use it in my 
> >>>> local clone and I actually haven't had many reasons to make it cleaner.
> >>> OK, so a bug in the nvidia driver is causing this problem then. If the
> >>> change you had in your previous mail is working as a way to avoid the
> >>> problem, I'll be able to modify the code and make it work without having
> >>> it do anything wrong.
> >>>
> > 
> > Does the attached patch fix your problem?
> > 
> > - David
> 
> Yes, it works fine. Thank you very much for making this a proper patch, I am feeling guilty for not doing it myself :-( 
> but my code wouldn't be so good anyhow. Thank you for paying attention to the Shade issue as well!
> 
> But the people having the decoration problem should answer this question! I didn't want to turn the thread's topic to 
> anything else.

I'm afraid the decoration problem is a different issue but this patch
makes sense anyhow as it's really a performance improvement and not
really a workaround for that nvidia driver bug. It just happens that we
avoid that issue when we're making the code a bit more efficient.

- David



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