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fish47

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Registered: 2022-10-30

Posts: 4

[SOLVED] window title bar textures corrupt everytime after cold boot

Screenshot

https://ibb.co/RzWynWV

Temperory Fixes

1. restart xfwm4
2. change window theme
3. hot reboot

Environment

System: Archlinux
Graphics: GT218M [GeForce 310M] (rev a2)

Packages

xorg-server 21.1.4-1
xfwm4 4.16.1-3
xfce4-session 4.16.0-2
xf86-video-nouveau 1.0.17-2
linux-ck-generic-v2 6.0.5-1

Useless Solutions

1. change desktop manager (sddm/emptty/ly)
2. change xfwm4's vblank_mode (auto/glx/xpresent)
3. change window theme (numix/adwaita)
4. upgrade xfwm4 package (26c93940)

Last edited by fish47 (2022-11-05 09:17:40)

ToZ

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From: Canada

Registered: 2011-06-02

Posts: 11,485

Re: [SOLVED] window title bar textures corrupt everytime after cold boot

Hello and welcome.

Looks like graphics corruption, but odd that restarting xfwm4 fixes it. Does clearing your sessions cache (delete the contents of ~/.cache/sessions when not logged into Xfce) help?

Otherwise, does your distro create an ~/.xsession-errors file? If so can you post after fresh login?
Or if is your distro is systemd-based, post back:

journalctl --user -b --no-pager

Edit: sorry, missed the archlinux note in your post.

Last edited by ToZ (2022-10-30 18:19:38)

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oldrust

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Registered: 2021-01-05

Posts: 16

Re: [SOLVED] window title bar textures corrupt everytime after cold boot

Graphics: GT218M [GeForce 310M] (rev a2)

If you're using xf86-video-nouveau try with modesetting ddx.
Also, start xfwm4 with --replace option in setting-editor>xfce-session.
xfconf-query -c xfce4-session -p /sessions/Failsafe/Client1_Command -t string -s wm_name -t string -s --wm-option.

fish47

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Registered: 2022-10-30

Posts: 4

Re: [SOLVED] window title bar textures corrupt everytime after cold boot

Hello and welcome.

Looks like graphics corruption, but odd that restarting xfwm4 fixes it. Does clearing your sessions cache (delete the contents of ~/.cache/sessions when not logged into Xfce) help?

Otherwise, does your distro create an ~/.xsession-errors file? If so can you post after fresh login?
Or if is your distro is systemd-based, post back:

journalctl --user -b --no-pager

Edit: sorry, missed the archlinux note in your post.

I have done this before login, but it does not work. BTW, there is only one file in the cache directory.

$ ls -aR ~/.cache/sessions

/home/fish47/.cache/sessions:
.  ..  thumbs-IdeaPad-V460:0

'/home/fish47/.cache/sessions/thumbs-IdeaPad-V460:0':
.  ..  Default.png

fish47

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Registered: 2022-10-30

Posts: 4

Re: [SOLVED] window title bar textures corrupt everytime after cold boot

Graphics: GT218M [GeForce 310M] (rev a2)

If you're using xf86-video-nouveau try with modesetting ddx.
Also, start xfwm4 with --replace option in setting-editor>xfce-session.
xfconf-query -c xfce4-session -p /sessions/Failsafe/Client1_Command -t string -s wm_name -t string -s --wm-option.

I can confirm that early KMS does not help. (Did I misunderstand?)
https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/nouvea … _early_KMS

adding --replace does not help either.
btw, Client1_Command may be wrong, so I replace it.

xfconf-query -c xfce4-session -p /sessions/Failsafe/Client0_Command -t string -s xfwm4 -t string -s --replace

Last edited by fish47 (2022-10-31 07:06:29)

oldrust

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Registered: 2021-01-05

Posts: 16

Re: [SOLVED] window title bar textures corrupt everytime after cold boot

I can confirm that early KMS does not help. (Did I misunderstand?).

No it's not early KMS. Uninstall the xf86-video-nouveau package and you will get automatically x11 modesetting driver (also disable any nouveau settings in /etc/x11/conf.d/xorg.conf or some other config file if you have it).

Last edited by oldrust (2022-10-31 18:41:17)

fish47

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Registered: 2022-10-30

Posts: 4

Re: [SOLVED] window title bar textures corrupt everytime after cold boot

https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/nvidia-340xx-dkms
https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/unoffi … kernel-lts
Finally, I switch back to nvidia propriety driver + lts510 kernel.
This post will be marked as resolved by the end of this week, if everything works fine.
// I got a screen freezing with nvidia driver + new kernel, so I need some time to test.