Sunday, September 13, 2009

Nvidia & Compiz (Redraw problems)

I just recently went through setting up Compiz on my laptop again. I had completely forgotten about the one issue that I had before and I had to search for it again. It seems that Compiz and Nvidia cards have a problem where windows will fail to redraw their contents. Needless to say, it get's frustrating when you can't be sure what text your cursor is really on.

In any case, it was a pretty simple fix. Load up the Compiz Settings Manager and go to the Utility->Workarounds. Simply enable the "Force ynchronization between X and GLX" checkbox and the problem will go away.

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