[Solved] Strange artifacts

Im having trouble with strange artifacts when I drag some windows or open text files in gedit. I am running openbox and xcompmgr. Any suggestions on how to resolve this?
[rbn@tarmac ~]$ lspci | grep VGA
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc RV620 [ATI FireGL V3700]
xorg.conf:
Section "Module"
Load "glx"
Load "dri"
Load "dbe"
EndSection
Section "Device"
Identifier "FireGL"
Driver "ati"
Option "XAANoOffscreenPixmaps" "true"
Option "DRI" "true"
Option "DynamicPM" "on"
Option "ClockGating" "on"
Option "AccelMethod" "EXA"
Option "EXAVSync" "on"
Option "DMAForXv" "on"
Option "ScalerWidth" "2048"
Option "EnablePageFlip" "on"
Option "RenderAccel" "on"
Option "AccelDFS" "on"
EndSection
Section "Monitor"
Identifier "sam0"
EndSection
Section "Screen"
Identifier "Screen 0"
Device "FireGL"
Monitor "sam0"
DefaultDepth 24
EndSection
Section "ServerLayout"
Identifier "Layout"
Screen "Screen 0"
Option "AIGLX" "true"
EndSection
Section "Extensions"
Option "Composite" "Enable"
EndSection
Section "DRI"
Group 0
Mode 0666
EndSection
Last edited by rbn14 (2010-03-05 05:28:20)

I'd been having the same issue. The strange artifacts in gtk apps seem to be specific only to certain gtk themes. They have nothing to do with xcompmgr, as jrs said, and they don't seem to have anything to do with openbox, either (I had much the same problem on awesome). Themes that use the Murrine engine or Aurora all seem to work fine, and probably other engines as well, but i'm not sure. I think the whatever engine is used by most of the Elegant (Brit, Cold Blue, etc) series of themes (pixmaps? can't remember) is to blame. I'll definitely check out the suggested version of xcompmgr, because i'm getting some similar behaviour on awesome wm, where it's not redrawing the screen, so when things move they leave trails, and such.

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