On 23 October 2014, Marc Espie <es...@nerim.net> wrote:
> This has been discussed internally, but chromium is partly broken
> these days.
>
> Most specifically, windows refresh does strange things under some
> circumstances.
>
> The circumstances are well-known (thanks to matthieu@): "modern"
> systems use some composition manager for eye-candy on their
> display. So if you're using a shiny window manager, you won't see an
> issue.
>
> Old-style window managers, such as fvwm, fvwm2 (from ports) and cwm
> don't. Hence the breakage.
>
> Work-around: start a composition manager, such as xcompmgr from base
> xenocara. Cry since you lost your background image or moire pattern
> (fvwm-root, from ports, does know about composition managers).
>
> We're currently in the process of reporting the problem upstream.
According to Linux guys, there's a world of pain in that general
direction:
http://www.iuculano.it/linux/apt-get-purge-chromium/
Some of the comments there are enlightening too.
> Outside of OpenBSD, most people don't use primitive window managers,
> so they don't see the issue.
>
> It probably started around when chromium switched to Aura for its
> gfx system...
Regards,
Liviu Daia
