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New nvidia-drivers fix the fill error

After the version bump yesterday to x11-drivers/nvidia-drivers-275.09.07, the problem with LXterminal drawing a black box in the upper-left corner of the primary display is no longer present. Though I don’t see any specific mention of this bug in the release highlights, the changelog can be found here: http://www.nvidia.com/object/linux-display-amd64-275.09.07-driver.html

Bug confirmed in LXterminal

Recently I posted about the rendering issue with LXterminal. I just found the confirmed bug report on LaunchPad for Ubuntu. It seems that the issue, then, is not distribution-specific. Therefore, I would imagine that the bug report should be filed upstream with the LXDE project. Once that is done, I will post a link to …

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High hopes for lxterminal fix, but alas

I had really high hopes for the updates that came to x11-libs/vte and to x11-base/xorg-server yesterday: [ebuild U ] x11-libs/vte-0.28.0-r200 [0.26.2] USE=”introspection* -debug -doc (-glade) -python” 0 kB [ebuild U ] x11-base/xorg-server-1.10.1.901 [1.10.1] USE=”nptl udev xorg -dmx -doc -ipv6 -kdrive -minimal -static-libs -tslib” 5,209 kB I did a full system update, ran revdep-rebuild and env-update, …

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