Re: Screen relics

On Fri, 4 May 2012, Scott Ferguson wrote:


On 04/05/12 17:07, Bret Busby wrote:
On Fri, 4 May 2012, Scott Ferguson wrote:

Date: Fri, 4 May 2012 13:48:42
From: Scott Ferguson <scott.ferguson.debian.user@xxxxxxxxx>
To: debian-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: Swap space not used (now screen relics).
Resent-Date: Fri, 4 May 2012 05:48:42 +0000 (UTC)
Resent-From: debian-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

On 04/05/12 15:30, Bret Busby wrote:

<snipped>



And, Iceweasel (and it may have happened with the iceape browser; I am
not sure - have not used it for a couple of weeks, now, I think) has a
habit of leaving fragments of dialogue boxes on top of everything else
on the desktop, hiding parts of the screen with the dialogue box
fragments, which only disappear when I kill or crash iceweasel. The only
thing that displays on top of the dialogue box fragments, is when I
invoke the screensaver, which overwrites evrything on the screen (at
least, for the present time)

I would include a screenshot showing this, but I do not know whether
this mailing list allows attachments.

It's preferable not to attach images. Use a screenscrape site.


I've seen that happen before - I don't believe the problem lies with
Iceweasel though, more likely a video driver/window manager problem

<snipped>


If you gave us (in a fresh post) information about your video etc
someone might be able to help.


lshw shows:

"
*-pci:0
description: PCI bridge
product: Core Processor PCI Express x16 Root Port
vendor: Intel Corporation
physical id: 1
bus info: pci@0000:00:01.0
version: 12
width: 32 bits
clock: 33MHz
capabilities: pci normal_decode bus_master cap_list
configuration: driver=pcieport
resources: irq:24 ioport:e000(size=4096)
memory:fa000000-fbefffff ioport:ce000000(size=301989888)
*-display
description: VGA compatible controller
product: GT218 [GeForce 310]
vendor: nVidia Corporation
physical id: 0
bus info: pci@0000:01:00.0
version: a2
width: 64 bits
clock: 33MHz
capabilities: vga_controller bus_master cap_list rom
configuration: driver=nouveau latency=0
resources: irq:16 memory:fa000000-faffffff
memory:d0000000-dfffffff(prefetchable)
memory:ce000000-cfffffff(prefetchable) ioport:ec00(size=128)
memory:fbe80000-fbefffff(prefetchable)
*-multimedia
description: Audio device
product: High Definition Audio Controller
vendor: nVidia Corporation
physical id: 0.1
bus info: pci@0000:01:00.1
version: a1
width: 32 bits
clock: 33MHz
capabilities: bus_master cap_list
configuration: driver=HDA Intel latency=0
resources: irq:16 memory:fbe7c000-fbe7ffff
"

Is that what is needed?

I am running GNOME.

Synaptic shows the GNOME version as 1:2.30+7

The Iceweasel version shows as

"
Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-US; rv:1.9.1.16) Gecko/20120421
Iceweasel/3.5.16 (like Firefox/3.5.16)
"

What other information is needed?

<snipped>

Are you using any effects that require 3D?


No.

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