GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 721156
gnome-shell massive drawing issues preventing from getting work done
Last modified: 2021-07-05 14:12:10 UTC
I reported a bug about gnome-shell a couple of days ago for Fedora 20 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1036668 The problem still exists but sadly I don't get any response on BRO therefore I digged out my old account informations from here and hope to get some feedback here. It would be nice to get this issue sorted out for the benefits of other people and myself. The details and Screenshot can be found on BRO.
Created attachment 264972 [details] Picture showing the issue!
I also like to give some more feedback on this: For example: Whenever I have gnome-terminal opened in fullscreen mode and open for example google-chrome (or any other app) ontop of that then what happens is the following. When gnome-terminal is fullscreen in the background and google-chrome put infront of it covering for example parts of the gnome-terminal then it's NOT possible to switch from google-chrome to gnome-terminal by simply clicking on the gnome-terminal area. In windowed mode (when gnome-terminal is not fullscreen) clicking from google-chrome to gnome-terminal (and vice versa) works normally. Whenever I move the mouse to the top left clicking on "Activities" the expose mode seem to "fix" the redrawing (painting) issue for the time being. As soon as you click on any of the applications again the drawing issues continue. Even if you type some text within a textfield (like this textfield here on BGO for the bugreport) things in the background of gnome-shell simply change "by accident". Colors change, other areas are being "blitted" elsewhere etc. It's like some sort of memoryleak or bufferleak or something.
I figured out that if you restart Gnome-Shell by pressing ALT+F2 and then 'r' in the Command Prompt that the newly started Gnome-Shell behaves correctly and remains that way. As soon as you reboot the machine, the problem comes up again until you restart Gnome-Shell once again.
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