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Termite is obsoleted by Alacritty. Termite was a keyboard-centric VTE-based terminal, aimed at use within a window manager with tiling and/or tabbing support.
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Terminal window shows artifacts while opening termite #719

Closed melihcoban closed 3 years ago

melihcoban commented 4 years ago

Hi, while I am opening a new terminal in i3 (arch linux) most of the time horizontal white lines appears in the window. I don't have any issues with other terminal emulators (tried with urxvt, alacritty and kitty),

youtube video showing it

termite -v says I am using the version v15. also my computer only have intel graphics card and as far as I know correct drivers are installed.

also, I compared startup times with other terminals and termite is a little bit slower (I don't know if it feels like that because I am seeing this glitches)

urxvt -e "sh -c exit"  0.05s user 0.00s system 98% cpu 0.058 total
alacritty -e "sh -c exit"  0.07s user 0.02s system 92% cpu 0.096 total
termite -e "sh -c exit"  0.13s user 0.02s system 100% cpu 0.147 total

I really would like to switch to termite but this couldn't find any way to fix this glitches (sorry if this is a old issue, unfortunately I couldn't find anything while searching for it)

Narrat commented 4 years ago

As termite uses vte(-ng) you could maybe test if those glitches happens with other vte-based terminals. Could be possible the culprit isn't termite :)

magnetophon commented 4 years ago

I tried with lxterminal, which is also VTE based, and it has the same issue, unfortunately.

magnetophon commented 4 years ago

I noticed that emacs has these artifacts too, but only when I enlarge the window. There is no vte in emacs, and the only dependency that all 3 have in common is gtk3. I tried another gtk3 app: baobab, but could not get it to produce artifacts.

I figured the culprit might be some text-displaying part of gtk3, so I tried geany. Sure enough, it has the same artifacts when resizing and closing.

A quick search on https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gtk/-/issues didn't turn anything up yet, but maybe swihtomeone more familiar whit the termite codebase will have more success with a more targeted search.

karlyeurl commented 4 years ago

Hello,

I have a similar issue (I use AwesomeWM and switching tags causes the issue). I tried with lxterminal as well, and the same happened.

Is this a vte(-ng) bug? What's the best way to figure out what is wrong and help fix it? Would perhaps trying to merge upstream vte (which is under development) into vte-ng (which hasn't received commits for quite some time) be a good start?

thestinger commented 3 years ago

Termite is obsolete. Please use Alacritty instead. See https://github.com/thestinger/termite#termite-is-obsoleted-by-alacritty for more details.