Visual artifacts on greeter screen and in certain apps like Gimp

Desktop Environments XFCE
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Getting weird visual artifacts on the greeter screen:
issue
The little purple cells move around on the greeter login prompt.

I also get this artifacting in Gimp on certain controls, and even on certain websites.
I’ll do my best to provide further documentation. I have installed and uninstalled a great number of packages associated with i3, bspwm, xmonad, and mate recently while checking those out, but I’ve also upgraded all of my packages consistently. Surely possible I caused this issue myself somehow.

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What graphics card and drivers are you using?

Could it be you have both Picom and Compton installed and conflicting?

If you are only running xfce perhaps you can try removing them.

Please give better system info for help, right now it’s a bit a guessing :dart:

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Use inxi -Fxxc0z | eos-sendlog and post the link here so we can have a look.

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System:
Kernel: 5.14.16-arch1-1 x86_64 bits: 64 compiler: gcc v: 11.1.0 Desktop: Xfce 4.16.0
tk: Gtk 3.24.29 wm: xfwm dm: LightDM Distro: EndeavourOS base: Arch Linux
Machine:
Type: Desktop System: ASUS product: All Series v: N/A serial:
Mobo: ASUSTeK model: Z97M-PLUS v: Rev X.0x serial:
UEFI: American Megatrends v: 2402 date: 10/28/2014
CPU:
Info: Quad Core model: Intel Core i7-4790K bits: 64 type: MT MCP arch: Haswell
rev: 3 cache: L2: 8 MiB
flags: avx avx2 lm nx pae sse sse2 sse3 sse4_1 sse4_2 ssse3 vmx bogomips: 64133
Speed: 801 MHz min/max: 800/4400 MHz Core speeds (MHz): 1: 801 2: 1401 3: 1332
4: 1145 5: 2252 6: 1797 7: 3427 8: 3137
Graphics:
Device-1: AMD Navi 22 [Radeon RX 6700/6700 XT / 6800M] vendor: Gigabyte
driver: amdgpu v: kernel bus-ID: 03:00.0 chip-ID: 1002:73df
Device-2: Logitech C922 Pro Stream Webcam type: USB driver: snd-usb-audio,uvcvideo
bus-ID: 3-10:3 chip-ID: 046d:085c
Display: x11 server: X.org 1.21.1.1 compositor: xfwm4 driver: loaded: amdgpu,ati
unloaded: fbdev,modesetting,radeon,vesa resolution: <missing: xdpyinfo>
OpenGL: renderer: AMD Radeon RX 6700 XT (NAVY_FLOUNDER DRM 3.42.0 5.14.16-arch1-1
LLVM 12.0.1)
v: 4.6 Mesa 21.2.4 direct render: Yes
Audio:
Device-1: Intel 9 Series Family HD Audio vendor: ASUSTeK driver: snd_hda_intel
v: kernel bus-ID: 00:1b.0 chip-ID: 8086:8ca0
Device-2: AMD Navi 21 HDMI Audio [Radeon RX 6800/6800 XT / 6900 XT]
driver: snd_hda_intel v: kernel bus-ID: 03:00.1 chip-ID: 1002:ab28
Device-3: YUAN High-Tech Development driver: N/A bus-ID: 05:00.0 chip-ID: 12ab:0380
Device-4: Logitech C922 Pro Stream Webcam type: USB driver: snd-usb-audio,uvcvideo
bus-ID: 3-10:3 chip-ID: 046d:085c
Device-5: Focusrite-Novation Focusrite Scarlett 2i2 2nd Gen type: USB
driver: snd-usb-audio bus-ID: 3-4:2 chip-ID: 1235:8202
Sound Server-1: ALSA v: k5.14.16-arch1-1 running: yes
Sound Server-2: sndio v: N/A running: no
Sound Server-3: JACK v: 1.9.19 running: no
Sound Server-4: PulseAudio v: 15.0 running: yes
Sound Server-5: PipeWire v: 0.3.40 running: no
Network:
Device-1: Intel Ethernet I218-V vendor: ASUSTeK driver: e1000e v: kernel port: f040
bus-ID: 00:19.0 chip-ID: 8086:15a1
IF: eno1 state: up speed: 1000 Mbps duplex: full mac:
Drives:
Local Storage: total: 4.09 TiB used: 557.67 GiB (13.3%)
ID-1: /dev/sda vendor: Samsung model: SSD 860 EVO 500GB size: 465.76 GiB
speed: 6.0 Gb/s serial:
ID-2: /dev/sdb vendor: Toshiba model: DT01ACA200 size: 1.82 TiB speed: 6.0 Gb/s
serial:
ID-3: /dev/sdc type: USB vendor: Western Digital model: WD Game Drive size: 1.82 TiB
serial:
Partition:
ID-1: / size: 915.81 GiB used: 557.64 GiB (60.9%) fs: ext4 dev: /dev/sdb2
ID-2: /boot/efi size: 96 MiB used: 29 MiB (30.2%) fs: vfat dev: /dev/sda2
Swap:
ID-1: swap-1 type: zram size: 7.03 GiB used: 0 KiB (0.0%) priority: 100
dev: /dev/zram0
Sensors:
System Temperatures: cpu: 29.8 C mobo: 27.8 C gpu: amdgpu temp: 53.0 C mem: 56.0 C
Fan Speeds (RPM): N/A gpu: amdgpu fan: 0
Info:
Processes: 250 Uptime: 7m Memory: 23.42 GiB used: 2.59 GiB (11.0%) Init: systemd
v: 249 Compilers: gcc: 11.1.0 clang: 12.0.1 Packages: 1373 pacman: 1363 flatpak: 10
Shell: fish v: 3.3.1 running-in: kitty inxi: 3.3.07

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I upgraded my system, and as of now the artifacting is gone! Yay. My apologies for the low effort put into providing system info and description of the problem w/ evidence. I was quite busy at the time. As a big fan of EOS I would like to thank you for showing up to try and help. I’ll return to this thread if the problem persists.

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Well, that didn’t take long. @s4ndm4n @Zircon34

Still happening.

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Can you check in pacman whether picom or Compton are still installed? Multiple compositors can potentially conflict with each other.

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inxi -Gxx | grep compositor
Display: x11 server: X.org 1.21.1.1 compositor: xfwm4 driver: loaded: amdgpu,ati

pacman -Qe | grep picom
picom-jonaburg-git 0.1-4

pacman -Qe | grep compton

(Compton grep search returns nothing)

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Are you still using picom or can remove? You mentioned you deleted your wm. Maybe there is some conflicting configs with xfwm. Maybe not but could be worth a try. Other thing that comes to my mind is graphics card driver.

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Just uninstalled picom and rebooted. The problem persists. I’ll look into downgrading my graphics driver or changing

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To be honest, I don’t know anything about AMD/Radeon graphics cards. I thought that the drivers are open source and implemented in the kernel. First thing I would try is boot either lts then normal kernel. Second thing, I found a post on arch Linux. The users say they had to install two packages from AUR. The thread can be found here

https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=265282

They mention installs of linux-firmware-git and mesa-git from AUR. Would be good to check with someone knowledgeable about these card. I think I saw a post from @BONK about this AMD Radeon RX 6700 XT card. I suggest to do a forum search and tag them here.

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Thank you for sleuthing.
I wasn’t able to install linux-firmware-git due to PGP error
gpg: WARNING: unsafe permissions on homedir '/home/myuser/.gnupg'
Even after running
chown -R myuser ~/.gnupg/
But, I was able to install mesa-git and it seems to have fixed my problem for real this time.
If it’s still fixed tomorrow evening I’ll mark this as solved.

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Problem is still here. Not sure how to proceed with the linux-firmware-git installation issue. I’ll do what you mentioned and contact someone in the know about my GPU