[SOLVED] This is how my urxvt looks several times a day. But why?
Completely garbled text and no cursor:
http://i.imgur.com/uou0S.jpg
I have no idea what the cause is. A reboot solves it for some hours. Sometimes other applications like Firefox show similar fragments.
System is up to date.
Last edited by Markus00000 (2011-10-19 09:22:38)
Markus00000 wrote:
lifeafter2am wrote:Using compositing by any chance?
Nope. Just plain xmonad.
I run XMonad as well, but with xcompmgr, and I get issues occasionaly with the intel drivers; but that looks different to what I get anyway. Are you using the rxvt-unicode package from the main repositories or one from the AUR? Do you have a lot of rxvt options in your .Xdefaults? (Taking shots in the dark here )
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