XFCE glitching when opening and closing a window

kit904 · 2022-04-02 14:43:15

Hello, I'm new to XFCE and linux. I installed arch linux in my machine, and installed XFCE in it. The issue I'm having is whenever I open/close a window I see a really glitchy effect like this.

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Here's a video showing it
https://streamable.com/ejz0wq

I'm using stock xfce with the only things that I recall changing were the application menu (changed to whisker menu) and the cursor.
I'm new to linux so I don't know if I should provide more information regarding this or not. And I did not see any specific guidelines mentioned either. But if more information is needed that I can provide I'll be happy to do so.
If anyone can help me with this it would be great. Thanks.

ToZ · 2022-04-02 16:18:56

Hello and welcome.

Which video card and video card driver are you using?
Is the compositor enabled?

kit904 · 2022-04-02 19:22:40

ToZ wrote:

Hello and welcome.
Which video card and video card driver are you using?
Is the compositor enabled?

I am using an Intel hd 630, igpu. With the processor i5 7400.

I had installed these two driver packages before.
xf86-video-intel
mesa

After you mentioned I looked carefully at the arch wiki and installed some more packages
vulkan-intel
intel-media-driver
libva-intel-driver
libva-utils

I have no idea what a "compositor" is, I'm sorry. I looked it up and and a result mentioned "Xfwm4" which according to neofetch is my WM.
Should I use a different window manager?

Update:
I just checked and yes the xfce compositor is on
If i turn it off it creates a weird black box around some windows.

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Last edited by kit904 (2022-04-02 19:42:36)

ToZ · 2022-04-02 19:59:37

The intel driver is dated and is no longer maintained. Remove xf86-video-intel and reboot - the kernel mode driver will take over and it should work better. See if that helps with the artifacts.

kit904 · 2022-04-02 23:29:46

ToZ wrote:

The intel driver is dated and is no longer maintained. Remove xf86-video-intel and reboot - the kernel mode driver will take over and it should work better. See if that helps with the artifacts.

I did remove that package. The issue is still there it seems.

ToZ · 2022-04-03 00:55:06

See this post. Try one of the other vblank modes to see if it helps.

kit904 · 2022-04-03 12:27:37

ToZ wrote:

See this post. Try one of the other vblank modes to see if it helps.

I have tried your suggestion and tried all three vblank modes, the issue is still there. I have tried it with some other applications aswell and it seems like it only happening with firefox.

Last edited by kit904 (2022-04-03 12:28:34)

kit904 · 2022-04-03 13:03:31

ToZ wrote:

See this post. Try one of the other vblank modes to see if it helps.

I tried booting off of a manjaro xfce usb and it's running the same xfce version 4.16 and xfwm4, I even updated firefox to the latest version on the live usb and it seems like no such issues were there.

ToZ · 2022-04-03 15:13:07

kit904 wrote:

it seems like it only happening with firefox.

If its only firefox, perhaps a configuration in firefox? Does disabling hardware acceleration make a difference?

Edit: Or this link.

Last edited by ToZ (2022-04-03 15:15:15)

ToZ · 2022-04-03 15:16:10

kit904 wrote:

ToZ wrote:
See this post. Try one of the other vblank modes to see if it helps.
I tried booting off of a manjaro xfce usb and it's running the same xfce version 4.16 and xfwm4, I even updated firefox to the latest version on the live usb and it seems like no such issues were there.

Is there a difference in the versions of firefox and mesa in Manjaro and Arch?

kit904 · 2022-04-03 20:29:36

ToZ wrote:

kit904 wrote:
ToZ wrote:
See this post. Try one of the other vblank modes to see if it helps.
I tried booting off of a manjaro xfce usb and it's running the same xfce version 4.16 and xfwm4, I even updated firefox to the latest version on the live usb and it seems like no such issues were there.
Is there a difference in the versions of firefox and mesa in Manjaro and Arch?

It seems like there is. Manjaro version was 98.0 while mine was 98.0.2. I've tried to troubleshoot the issue and it seems like disabling title bar causes the glitching. I've installed 98.2 in manjaro xfce and the issue was there aswell.

Disabling hardware acceleration while title bar is disabled does make the glitching go away. But unfortunately its far from ideal as some pages are pretty laggy.

Last edited by kit904 (2022-04-03 21:06:57)

ToZ · 2022-04-03 23:57:31

The video in this bug report looks similar to yours.

kit904 · 2022-04-04 00:06:25

ToZ wrote:

The video in this bug report looks similar to yours.

Yes I submitted a bug report aswell. Lets see what happens

mauser · 2022-04-07 05:31:12

kit904 wrote:

ToZ wrote:
The video in this bug report looks similar to yours.
Yes I submitted a bug report aswell. Lets see what happens

Try selecting Compton as your compositor. If you don't have Compton install it. Also stay away from any packages from Manjaro unless you want trouble.

kit904 · 2022-04-11 20:19:33

mauser wrote:

kit904 wrote:
ToZ wrote:
The video in this bug report looks similar to yours.
Yes I submitted a bug report aswell. Lets see what happens
Try selecting Compton as your compositor. If you don't have Compton install it. Also stay away from any packages from Manjaro unless you want trouble.

Packages from manjaro? wdym? manjaro just uses the arch repository.

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