On Fri, 2007-09-21 at 01:59 +0200, Lluis wrote: > > So this happens both with the proprietary nvidia driver, the intel one, > > and both with GTK+ and Qt applications? > > this is what it seems... > > > > This sounds more like a problem with the X server. From the xorg.conf it > > looks like you have a very custom setup, have you tried to temporarily > > move it out of the way and try with the default settings? The ones that > > "dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xorg" gives you? > > well, after fiddling around with the "optional" lines of my xorg.conf, I've > found a combination of two lines which drive the rendering crazy (in the > Device section): > > Option "AccelMethod" "exa" > Option "XAANoOffscreenPixmaps" "true" > > > > Also, is there anything common between the GTK+ and Qt applications, for > > example, what kind of font are you using? > > After playing with the options, it seems to me that it's something related > to the xserver (although only the text of some - gtk & qt - applications > and the gnome trayincon applets seem to be affected) > > Hope this helps instead of darkening the problem :) > > PS: if it is confirmed, maybe this bug should be "linked" (or wathever is > the official name) to the X server.
AFAIK exa was introduced recently so I'm not sure that this is the same problem you reported back in 2006. Anyway, I'm cc'ing the X maintainers as this is way over my head, hopefully one of them can pinpoint what's going on here. -- Cheers, Sven Arvidsson http://www.whiz.se PGP Key ID 760BDD22
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