Vlc & chromium contents persist across virtual desktops after -Syu

I have just completed today's large pacman -Syu which includes upgrades chromium, vlc, a new kernel and nvidia blob  and many others.  On rebooting I  see that:
(1) The vlc video window persists across across virtual desktops (although its frame is lost away from the desktop on which it was launched). This is using icewm as my WM.
(2) The content of chromium tabs persist in the same way.
Is anybody else seeing this please?
Last edited by perseus (2014-01-13 23:15:05)

This is interesting.
I'm using openbox and I have the same problem when playing StarCraft II under wine. Just to clarify, I use the nvidia-drivers.
I start it on my second vdesktop*, tab to the first one.. persists. Tab back to 2, tab to 3 (all fine), tab to 1 and everything stays fine.
So I'd have to switch to 3, then to 1 to cleanly access 1.
What the heck is going on?
*Virtual desktop as in workspace. They are defined within openbox config.
Edit: No one in #archlinux seems to know anything so far.
Another edit: It only seems to happen when firefox is open on the desktop I want to access. Turning hardware acceleration off doesn't change a thing though.
Last edited by Jellicent (2014-01-14 18:56:51)

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