computer video screen problem...screen splits, doesn't update...Xgl/Compiz-Fusion/NVidia problem??

Derek Atkins warlord at MIT.EDU
Wed Sep 12 12:15:30 EDT 2007


Is this only the register?  Or does it happen in other gnucash
views as well?

-derek

Will McCreight <whmcc at attglobal.net> writes:

> I have been using Gnucash for some time now for personal use of
> checkbook features, and I like it a lot. However, I am having difficulty
> with the video screen not updating properly and I think it has to do
> with NVidia/Xgl/Compiz issues which then present themselves in the
> Gnucash window while it is up. I am running OpenSUSE 10.2, newest Nvidia
> drivers, Gnucash 2.2.0, Compiz-Fusion newest version. This problem first
> arose when I updated drivers for NVidia and moved from Beryl to
> Compiz-Fusion, and I have not had this issue with any other program
> (other than it "breaking MythTV's ability to play back a recording",
> which I have been able to fix with an environmental variable which
> apparently turns off Xgl for that "session" of MythTV).
>
> When I open Gnucash, the left hand side of the window is correct, but
> the right half of the window is black. When I click on the account tabs,
> often the lower portion of the screen (on both left and right sides)
> which displays the check register does not change, still shows the old
> account info. When I enter a check and it now jumps up a line to allow
> me to enter another check, there is a copy of the old data (a duplicate)
> in the "new" line position until I click into one of its fields, and
> then the line clears to blank to allow me to enter new data. Often the
> left-right screen split happens, where one side of the check register
> only updates to, say, the new account, while the other half still shows
> the old account's data.
>
> I have been able to use Gnucash despite these difficulties, but it is at
> minimum annoying, and at most, worrisome that I may lose data, or at
> least confuse data.
>
> I think this is an issue with Gnucash and/or Compiz and/or the NVidia
> driver not updating the screen properly. It has not crashed my X session
> the way MythTV did for a while, before I discovered the NO_XV
> environmental variable which MythTV apparently uses to turn off Xgl for
> its session...might there be a similar switch or environmental variable
> which Gnucash can use in my situation?
>
> I have been searching the internet for a similar complaint to mine, but
> so far have found none.  Any suggestions?
>
> Thanx in advance,
> Will
>
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