Terminal emulators wierdness with fading

[gcoda]

I am not really sure what is happening, each time i try to use compton after some time terminal emulators start to "lag", i tried xterm, urxvt, xfce4-terminal. I am pretty sure i saw issue like this, but failed to find it.

for example, when i type ls i will see no changes, and after i press return few times i will see results of ls and few new empty lines.

i blamed bad video drivers and switched from nvidia to intel hd4000 with same issue, i am guessing it might be related to screen size 2560x1440, after revising my i3wm config i decided to enable compton with hopes of nice shadows, but it is happening again , its really hard to reproduce, this glitch appears randomly, maybe it is just a some simple option in compton config?

looks like its working fine now, with disabled fading, maybe invisible part of terminal was fading after each command?

[Brottweiler]

Same issue, and I think I've explained the issue pretty well in #363. Closing that one in favor of this one.

If I compare my config and the default sample, I can see I've enabled these:

glx-no-stencil = true;
glx-no-rebind-pixmap = true;

So I am trying to see if disableing them (or one of them) makes a difference, and so far it seems like it. Will do further testing. If it doesn't fix it I will disable fading and look into that.

[Brottweiler]

It appears that if I have glx-no-rebind-pixmap set to true and uncomment it (so it becomes enabled) the issue happens, when commenting it out (or maybe setting it to false) my issue stops.

Edit: I had one encounter where it would not update, so I've also commented out glx-no-stencil to see if that fixes that. If this doesn't fix it, I will disable fading as OP suggests. Stay tuned...

[Brottweiler]

Update again... 😦

I've disabled both the glx-no-stencil and glx-no-rebind-pixmap, aswell as fading (i turned it to false), and compton is still causing this issue.

Will keep investigating...

The thing is though, when I started disableing the glx options, I got the issue less...

[oblitum]

I've just switched to compton from xcompmgr and I'm hitting this too. It happens a lot when switching between tmux sessions.

It doesn't seem particularly tied to fading. The only fix is to shutdown compton.

[ppetermann]

I'm having the same issue :(

[Brottweiler]

@ppetermann Would you be able to try the new upstream fork instead and see if you still get this issue? https://github.com/yshui/compton