Firefox 3 displays pieces of desktop background

Mark Kirkwood markir at paradise.net.nz
Sun Nov 16 23:27:28 PST 2008


Christoph Moench-Tegeder wrote:
> ## Mark Kirkwood (markir at paradise.net.nz):
>
>   
>> I'm on 7.1 Prerelease refreshed a few days ago. I've noticed that 
>> Firefox 3 (3.0.4, but 3.0.3 was the same) displays snippets from ones 
>> desktop on some webpages (yahoo and youtube being the 2 most recent).
>>     
>
> Image rendering was optimized in Firefox 3, so it breaks with a lot
> of xservers (seems as if some pixmap rendering code is broken in X
> and firefox triggers that problem).
> Try setting Option "XaaNoOffscreenPixmaps" to "true" in the "Device"
> section of your xorg.conf.
>   

Excellent, this sorts the display problem - thanks very much!

Mark


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