I'm running xfce4 4.12.4 on Ubuntu Bionic with six workspaces in 3x2 layout. When working on workspace 2, sometimes, at random, and not seemingly triggered by anything obvious, the image of what's on workspace 1 will appear. The applications running on workspace 2 are still there, its just the bitmap image from workspace 1 has been overlaid. As the applications refresh themselves if I click or mouse around they will restore, and pretty quickly the workspace looks ok again when everything has repainted. It doesn't happen with multiple workspace systems under Gnome - I've only seen it with XFCE. I did look for errors in ~/.Xsession-errors but xfce4 doesn't seem to be writing an xsession-errors file - at least I can't find it. I might not be looking in the right place. XFCE has all the features I want in a desktop without the weight of Gnome which this PC struggles with. Would be nice to fix. Can post system details - its a Dell desktop with two differently-sized monitors connected, if that's relevant...
Moving to xfwm4, since it deals with workspaces, so I'm almost sure it's more appropriate than xfdesktop. With regards to the bug, it's really hard to say from the reported (mis)behavior. Probably ofourdan is more capable than me to figure this out. In any case, please report the output of xfwm4 -V and tell us which video driver are you using (nvidia, nouveau, intel, mesa...).
xfwm4 -V : This is xfwm4 version 4.12.4 (revision 7844952) for Xfce 4.12 Released under the terms of the GNU General Public License. Compiled against GTK+-2.24.31, using GTK+-2.24.32. Build configuration and supported features: - Startup notification support: Yes - XSync support: Yes - Render support: Yes - Xrandr support: Yes - Embedded compositor: Yes - KDE systray proxy (deprecated): No I'm running the nouveau driver with Xorg (not Wayland) xserver-xorg-video-nouveau 1:1.0.15-2 I've just switched off display compositing with the xfwm4-tweaks-settings tools to see if that stops it happening - not seen it yet. Will comment again if it happens in which case its not a compositing code problem. lspci -vvv shows: 01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: NVIDIA Corporation G96GL [Quadro FX 580] (rev a1) (prog-if 00 [VGA controller]) Subsystem: NVIDIA Corporation G96GL [Quadro FX 580] Control: I/O+ Mem+ BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop- ParErr- Stepping- SERR- FastB2B- DisINTx+ Status: Cap+ 66MHz- UDF- FastB2B- ParErr- DEVSEL=fast >TAbort- <TAbort- <MAbort- >SERR- <PERR- INTx- Latency: 0, Cache Line Size: 64 bytes Interrupt: pin A routed to IRQ 26 Region 0: Memory at fd000000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=16M] Region 1: Memory at c0000000 (64-bit, prefetchable) [size=512M] Region 3: Memory at fa000000 (64-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=32M] Region 5: I/O ports at dc80 [size=128] Expansion ROM at 000c0000 [disabled] [size=128K] Capabilities: [60] Power Management version 3 Flags: PMEClk- DSI- D1- D2- AuxCurrent=0mA PME(D0-,D1-,D2-,D3hot-,D3cold-) Status: D0 NoSoftRst- PME-Enable- DSel=0 DScale=0 PME- Capabilities: [68] MSI: Enable+ Count=1/1 Maskable- 64bit+ Address: 00000000fee01004 Data: 4025 Capabilities: [78] Express (v2) Endpoint, MSI 00 DevCap: MaxPayload 128 bytes, PhantFunc 0, Latency L0s <1us, L1 <4us ExtTag+ AttnBtn- AttnInd- PwrInd- RBE+ FLReset- SlotPowerLimit 25.000W DevCtl: Report errors: Correctable- Non-Fatal+ Fatal+ Unsupported- RlxdOrd+ ExtTag+ PhantFunc- AuxPwr- NoSnoop+ MaxPayload 128 bytes, MaxReadReq 512 bytes DevSta: CorrErr- UncorrErr- FatalErr- UnsuppReq- AuxPwr- TransPend- LnkCap: Port #0, Speed 2.5GT/s, Width x16, ASPM L0s L1, Exit Latency L0s <1us, L1 <1us ClockPM- Surprise- LLActRep- BwNot- ASPMOptComp- LnkCtl: ASPM Disabled; RCB 64 bytes Disabled- CommClk+ ExtSynch- ClockPM- AutWidDis- BWInt- AutBWInt- LnkSta: Speed 2.5GT/s, Width x16, TrErr- Train- SlotClk+ DLActive- BWMgmt- ABWMgmt- DevCap2: Completion Timeout: Not Supported, TimeoutDis+, LTR-, OBFF Not Supported DevCtl2: Completion Timeout: 50us to 50ms, TimeoutDis-, LTR-, OBFF Disabled LnkCtl2: Target Link Speed: 2.5GT/s, EnterCompliance- SpeedDis- Transmit Margin: Normal Operating Range, EnterModifiedCompliance- ComplianceSOS- Compliance De-emphasis: -6dB LnkSta2: Current De-emphasis Level: -6dB, EqualizationComplete-, EqualizationPhase1- EqualizationPhase2-, EqualizationPhase3-, LinkEqualizationRequest- Capabilities: [b4] Vendor Specific Information: Len=14 <?> Capabilities: [100 v1] Virtual Channel Caps: LPEVC=0 RefClk=100ns PATEntryBits=1 Arb: Fixed- WRR32- WRR64- WRR128- Ctrl: ArbSelect=Fixed Status: InProgress- VC0: Caps: PATOffset=00 MaxTimeSlots=1 RejSnoopTrans- Arb: Fixed- WRR32- WRR64- WRR128- TWRR128- WRR256- Ctrl: Enable+ ID=0 ArbSelect=Fixed TC/VC=01 Status: NegoPending- InProgress- Capabilities: [128 v1] Power Budgeting <?> Capabilities: [600 v1] Vendor Specific Information: ID=0001 Rev=1 Len=024 <?> Kernel driver in use: nouveau Kernel modules: nvidiafb, nouveau
Having used it for a few days with compositing off, I tried switching compositing on and within about a minute the image of Workspace 1 appeared while I was on Workspace 2. Probably not coincidence. I can work with compositing off until this gets fixed, no urgency. I stopped worrying about opaque windows and multiple desktops on a rotating cube about ten years ago :)
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