Public bug reported:
Many X11 applications do not refresh in a timely fashion, and the window
must be disturbed to achieve refresh. Typical disturbances causing
refresh are: typing in the window, interacting with the mouse, focusing
a different application, etc.
I have seen this behavior in:
* Firefox
* Electron apps (Slack, Keybase, Element, Discord)
* Zoom
* Possibly Emacs (see #1893969)
* Xournal
* VMware Player (both the host GUI and the guest screen)
I am attaching a video of this behavior in Firefox; you can see that
when I close a tab, the tab that takes its place paints only partially,
and even mousing with tooltip popups and typing in a text entry cause
only partial corrections. Mousing away from the Firefox window to focus
a window on a different display causes a complete repaint. (Mousing to
another window on the _same_ display would also cause a repaint, it just
so happens that I focused a window on a different display).
I can reproduce this problem with no compositor running, or with compton
running.
This bug is trivial to reproduce and happens nearly constantly. I have
trouble taking screen shots / videos of the behavior on this machine
only because this is a workstation that I use for teaching a University
course and much of the work that I do on it would disclose student
information if shared. I will try to produce more evidence if required,
but it requires some time to do so.
My desktop configuration is three displays. The displays are arranged
in a horizontal row. The left and center monitors are external Full HD
DisplayPort monitors, daisy chained, and the right monitor is the
internal display on my laptop. The left display is DP-2-1, which is
connected to the center monitor by a DisplayPort daisy chain. The
center display is DP-2-8, which is connected to the laptop via
DisplayPort over USB 3 (USB C). The right display is eDP-1. All three
displays have a logical resolution of 3840x2160. The left and center
displays are scaled to Full HD, and the eDP-1 runs at its native
resolution. I use the following xrandr command to configure this:
HIX=3840
HIY=2160
HI=${HIX}x${HIY}
xrandr --fb $(($HIX * 3))x$HIY \
--output eDP-1 --auto --panning ${HI}+$(($HIX * 2))+0 \
--output DP-2-8 --auto --panning ${HI}+$HIX+0 \
--scale-from $HI --left-of eDP-1 --scale 2x2 \
--output DP-2-1 --auto --panning $HI+0+0 \
--scale-from $HI --left-of DP-2-8 --scale 2x2
ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 20.04
Package: xorg 1:7.7+19ubuntu14
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 5.4.0-42.46-generic 5.4.44
Uname: Linux 5.4.0-42-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.20.11-0ubuntu27.8
Architecture: amd64
BootLog: Error: [Errno 13] Permission denied: '/var/log/boot.log'
CasperMD5CheckResult: skip
CompositorRunning: None
CurrentDesktop:
Date: Fri Oct 2 10:02:50 2020
DistUpgraded: 2020-06-21 15:36:52,619 DEBUG Running PostInstallScript:
'./xorg_fix_proprietary.py'
DistroCodename: focal
DistroVariant: ubuntu
DkmsStatus:
v4l2loopback, 0.12.3, 5.4.0-42-generic, x86_64: installed
v4l2loopback, 0.12.3, 5.4.0-47-generic, x86_64: installed
v4l2loopback, 0.12.3, 5.4.0-48-generic, x86_64: installed
DpkgLog:
ExtraDebuggingInterest: Yes
GraphicsCard:
Intel Corporation Device [8086:9bca] (rev 04) (prog-if 00 [VGA controller])
Subsystem: Dell Device [1028:0962]
MachineType: Dell Inc. XPS 13 7390
ProcKernelCmdLine: BOOT_IMAGE=/vmlinuz-5.4.0-42-generic
root=UUID=aeb9197c-491f-493d-9a7a-7094efd5023c ro quiet splash vt.handoff=7
SourcePackage: xorg
Symptom: display
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to focal on 2020-06-21 (102 days ago)
dmi.bios.date: 11/25/2019
dmi.bios.vendor: Dell Inc.
dmi.bios.version: 1.4.0
dmi.board.name: 0377MH
dmi.board.vendor: Dell Inc.
dmi.board.version: A00
dmi.chassis.type: 10
dmi.chassis.vendor: Dell Inc.
dmi.modalias:
dmi:bvnDellInc.:bvr1.4.0:bd11/25/2019:svnDellInc.:pnXPS137390:pvr:rvnDellInc.:rn0377MH:rvrA00:cvnDellInc.:ct10:cvr:
dmi.product.family: XPS
dmi.product.name: XPS 13 7390
dmi.product.sku: 0962
dmi.sys.vendor: Dell Inc.
version.compiz: compiz N/A
version.libdrm2: libdrm2 2.4.101-2
version.libgl1-mesa-dri: libgl1-mesa-dri 20.0.8-0ubuntu1~20.04.1
version.libgl1-mesa-glx: libgl1-mesa-glx N/A
version.xserver-xorg-core: xserver-xorg-core 2:1.20.8-2ubuntu2.4
version.xserver-xorg-input-evdev: xserver-xorg-input-evdev N/A
version.xserver-xorg-video-ati: xserver-xorg-video-ati 1:19.1.0-1
version.xserver-xorg-video-intel: xserver-xorg-video-intel
2:2.99.917+git20200226-1
version.xserver-xorg-video-nouveau: xserver-xorg-video-nouveau 1:1.0.16-1
** Affects: xorg (Ubuntu)
Importance: Undecided
Status: New
** Tags: amd64 apport-bug corruption focal ubuntu
** Attachment added: "firefox-kill-tab.mp4"
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1898210/+attachment/5416639/+files/firefox-kill-tab.mp4
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