[arch-general] Very weird window resize or move behavior with awesomewm

Wed Apr 4 16:08:48 EDT 2012

On 04/04/2012 09:15 PM, David wrote:

> I have installed Awesome WM, and now i get very strange artifacts while
> resizing or moving windows OR having mplayer on full screen gives a lot
> of huge lines and flicker, making it impossible to watch movies.
>
> Nvidia 9500m proprietary driver.
> -ck kernel(vanilla has this issue too)

I had similar problems with Nvidia 9300m + awesome + vanilla kernel. 
Problems vanished when I started using uvesafb [1]. Not sure if it was 
awesome-related and if another WM or DE has similar problems (didn't try 
anything else).

[1] https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Uvesafb