Bug#1108418: vlc: When playing a video: garbage for a few seconds when a Firefox window is opened close to the VLC one
On 2025-06-28 13:59:20 +0300, Rémi Denis-Courmont wrote:
> Le lauantaina 28. kesäkuuta 2025, 3.18.49 Itä-Euroopan kesäaika Vincent
> Lefevre a écrit :
> > When a video was being played in VLC and I opened a new Firefox window
> > with Ctrl-N partly over the VLC window or close to it (I use FVWM
> > manual placement), garbage (more or less a set of rectangles) appeared
> > in place of the video for a few seconds. This was always reproducible.
> > This issue never occurred when I opened an Xterm window instead of a
> > Firefox window.
>
> That sounds like a problem with the WM,
The WM might make the bug apparent, but it is not responsible for the
display.
> or perhaps the compositor
I do not use a compositor.
> or display drivers,
I could try on other machines that have different display drivers.
> especially when you add:
>
> > The [xterm] window does not need to be close to the VLC window.
I think that the cause is just that the display is locked.
That was frequent in the past with modal dialogs, but I don't
know if such dialogs still exist so that I could try.
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