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taskbar dropped graphics #590

Closed Veraellyunjie closed 3 years ago

Veraellyunjie commented 3 years ago

scrot 2020-11-19T11:56:31,281638071+02:00 then it healed itself a bit but still background suffers: scrot 2020-11-23T12:59:52,366901666+02:00

Did nothing special or stressful, just a regular workflow Running IceWM of antiX Linux Theme — Icequinox Dawn The issue happened November 2020. I was too lazy to report in a timely fashion, sorry

gijsbers commented 3 years ago

Hello, thanks for reporting. Which version is this? Does it also happen with latest? Do you run a compositor like picom or compton?

Veraellyunjie commented 3 years ago

This happened only once, in November 2020.

The IceWM version was of antiX' repo in November 2020 antiX probably has a tweaked IceWM, judging by version string (this is my current, not the version of the date of the issue, but the word "antix" was there either): 

> apt show icewm 
Package: icewm 
Version: 2.2.1-1.0antix1

I must have generally run picom compositor at the time, but I am not 100% sure whether it was actually running at the moment of the issue.

Notice the favicon of https://apkpure.com/ (that green capital "A") in place of taskbar background. Multiple tabs with the website were opened in https://qutebrowser.org/ . Websites' favicons normally never get into IceWM taskbar afaik. Here, it seems to me, the whole qutebrowser's tab bar made its way into IceWM taskbar.

I had had nouveau driver then, but some Qt apps hadn't worked OK (qbittorrent regularly crashed whereas anki wouldn't start at all). Since I installed Nvidia driver, the aforementioned couple runs smoothly. qutebrowser is a Qt app too, but unlike qbittorrent and anki it did work fine on nouveau. I speculate, if Qt fails witn nouveau on my NVIDIA G98M [GeForce 9300M GS], then other GUIs might either, including IceWM.

I have insufficient RAM of 3 GB, and swap is used routinely. The total memory load was heavy at the moment of the issue (as always — web browsers are hogs, you know).

I recall that taskbar dropping graphics happened on window switching, probably on Alt+Tab.

gijsbers commented 3 years ago

If it only happened once, and hasn't for half a year, then we may assume it was due to providing insufficient memory for your applications to run. We can safely discard this issue. This is a more a bug for the X server.