On Sun, Feb 10, 2019 at 03:39:29PM -0800, Thomas Frohwein wrote: > On Sun, Feb 10, 2019 at 11:16:03PM +0100, Erling Westenvik wrote: > > Hi, > > After upgrading to todays snapshot (February 10th) I experience some rather > > ugly shadow artifacts and color distortions when using compton(1) under > > cwm(1). > > It may perhaps best be described by linking to an issue report from April > > 2018 > > at github: > > > > https://github.com/chjj/compton/issues/487 > > > > and from that page - a link to a screendump showing exactly what I > > experience: > > > > https://framapic.org/dHfk2217huGs/NIiGKJsfnz52.jpg > > > > The problem can be reproduced by specifying "glx" as backend in compton(1). > > It > > appear to have been major glx-related imports in Xenocara on January 29th > > 2019. > > My previous snapshot was older than that, perhaps as old as from December > > 2018, > > but for certain newer than the previous bulk import which appears to have > > been October 23rd 2018. > > > > My graphics card is a ATI Radeon HD 5770. Dmesg below. > > > > Not sure how to attack this. Help/ideas appreciated. > [...] > > Yep, I noticed the same with compton after the update to Mesa 18 in snaps. I > think the following GitHub issue is actually the more fitting one: > > https://github.com/chjj/compton/issues/477 > > For me, switching to xrender backend for compton is a satisfactory solution > until the freedesktop bug referenced in the above link [1] has been addressed. > > [1] https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=104597
At least for me that comes with a huge performance penalty, and I cannot have blurred transparent backgrounds. All right, so it's just eye candy, but I find the ability to have a certain sense of visual depth really helpful. Regards, Erling
