Comment 41 for bug 194769

This works on my 600e and 380z
Thanks very much :)

would be nice if it was properly fixed / automatic as there are still many
thousands of laptops with this chipset in use, and Xubuntu is an ideal
distro for them.

2008/9/16 714snoopy <email address hidden>

> Janne,
>
> Wow! This worked perfectly on my IBM Thinkpad 390X. Thanks for the fix!
>
> /Charlie
>
> Do you Ubuntu and/or Open Office?
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>
>
> On Mon, Sep 15, 2008 at 08:16, Janne Siren <<email address hidden>
> >wrote:
>
> > Hi!
> >
> > I can also confirm this bug with IBM600 and IBM600E laptops. Though for
> > my purposes recompiling xfce4-terminal is not suitable workaround. But I
> > found easier workaround, I added following lines to /etc/X11/xorg.conf:
> >
> > Section "Extensions"
> > Option "Composite" "Disable"
> > EndSection
> >
> > At least this works with IBM600 (NeoMagic 128XD) and IBM600E (NeoMagic
> > 256AV).
> >
> > I do not know how this composite-extension should work, but for my
> > understanding RGBA (referring to function gdk_screen_get_rgba_colormap
> > in the xfce4-terminal code) requires 32bpp framebuffer (24 bits for
> > color and 8 bits for alpha channel). With these very old chips the
> > xubuntu 8.04 LTS uses 16 as default depth, meaning 16 bpp framebuffer
> > with RGB weight 565, thus leaving no space for alpha channel. (Though I
> > do not know has rgba-colormap of gtk and framebuffer bpp any relation.)
> > Anyhow: as composite-extension is not working, it still leaves me wonder
> > why composite-extension is not automatically disabled with these chips
> > at installation phase or when X11 system starts up.
> >
> > best regards,
> > Janne
> >
> > --
> > xfce4-terminal window borders / decorations / widgets being incorrectly
> > drawn (xubuntu 8.04)
> > https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/194769
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> > of the bug.
> >
> > Status in "xfce4-terminal" source package in Ubuntu: Confirmed
> >
> > Bug description:
> > Binary package hint: xfce4-terminal
> >
> > I'm using xubuntu 8.04 (up to date as of 22/02/08) on a thinkpad 600e. I
> > upgraded from xubuntu 7.10 a few days ago. When I open an xfce4-terminal
> > window the borders, title bar and widgets are either black or corrupted
> > multicolours (see attachments), this also effects the xfce4-terminal
> > preferences window. No other applications have this problem, and changing
> > the theme does not effect the problem. If i move another window in front
> of
> > the terminal window sometimes small pieces of colour from the broken
> title
> > bar seem to leak through and appear on the other window.
> > This is both cosmetic and functional as it hides the minimise, close, etc
> > widgets and the title. Since this is a commonly used core package in
> xubuntu
> > i think it is important. Anyone had the same problem on other hardware?
> > On my thinkpad the 7.10 version worked flawlessly and gnome -terminal
> works
> > as expected, its just this package so i doubt its specific to my machine.
> > Thanks
> >
>
> --
> xfce4-terminal window borders / decorations / widgets being incorrectly
> drawn (xubuntu 8.04)
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/194769
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