XFCE 4.14 window manager improperly drawn decorations

[Guido Falsi]

On 30/01/20 19:35, Greg Veldman wrote:
> Hi, I realize I'm probably late to the party as the next round
> of quartly reports are already coming out, but I found this note
> in the ones from last year
> 
> https://www.freebsd.org/news/status/report-2019-07-2019-09.html#XFCE-4.14-update
> 
> With a note to contact xfce@ if I'm experiencing the problem
> with improperly drawn window decorations in XFWM 4.14 (this
> appears to also be bug #240887).
> 
> I have hardware on which I am able to reliably reproduce this
> issue.  This is using a card which identifies as a Caicos PRO
> [Radeon HD 7450] in pciconf, though this is the exact card I
> purchased for this machine:
> 
> https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B004X8EO6Q

Hi,

Sorry for the late answer!

Unluckily this is a complicated bug to fix. I'm unable to reproduce it
on my hardware and also have little knowledge of the internals of xfwm4
and also the libraries it uses (looks like cairo has an important role
in this)

This problem is being tracked upstream here:

https://bugzilla.xfce.org/show_bug.cgi?id=15990

If you have time you could post a followup there with your findings,
this at least would show the bug is alive and maybe attract some attention.

-- 
Guido Falsi <madpilot at freebsd.org>