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MarkE

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Registered: 2026-01-11

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desktop not drawn when waking from sleep w/compositor on

Very long time xfce user. Ryzen 3900x, RTX 4070, Gentoo stable, xorg, no login manager. I boot to terminal and run 'startxfce4' every time. 2 1080p screens side-by-side, 1x 165Hz, 1x 120Hz. Disabling and re-enabling compositor fixes it, but is annoying. Anyone have and fix this themselves?

laura1

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Registered: 2026-01-17

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Re: desktop not drawn when waking from sleep w/compositor on

In reality, on XFCE + Xorg, the combination of NVIDIA and multiple monitors with mismatched refresh rates often results in redraw errors after sleep. Personally, I choose the workaround of binding the hotkey to restart the compositor, as it's more stable than waiting for an upstream fix.