[openbox] Video overlay / nvidia-drivers weirdness

[meino.cramer at gmx.de]

Mikael Magnusson <mikachu at gmail.com> [14-04-23 04:35]:
> On 19 April 2014 14:40,  <meino.cramer at gmx.de> wrote:
> > Dana Jansens <danakj at orodu.net> [14-04-19 14:32]:
> >> On Sat, Apr 19, 2014 at 6:44 AM, <meino.cramer at gmx.de> wrote:
> >>
> >> > Hi,
> >> >
> >> > I am runnig Gentoo Linux on a AMD64 machine using openbox
> >> > as my preferred windowmanager.
> >> >
> >> > Recently with an update of the system beside other things
> >> > the nvidia-drivers and the xorg-server were updated.
> >> >
> >> > Versions:
> >> > (tried all of them)
> >> > x11-drivers/nvidia-drivers-304.121
> >> > x11-drivers/nvidia-drivers-337.12
> >> > x11-wm/openbox-3.5.2-r1
> >> > x11-wm/openbox-9999 (Gentoo nameing for "developper snapshot)
> >> >
> >> > Openbox is started via slim (login manager), which executes
> >> > autostart.sh, which (beside other things) mutt in a urxvt
> >> > terminal.
> >> >
> >>
> >> Do you run a compositor in your autostart like xcompmgr or anything like
> >> that?
> >>
> >
> > No...pure ol' openbox. The one. The only :)
> > Before update this setup has worked for a looooong time...
> 
> I had the same problem with the 334.21 drivers. However, it seems it's
> not possible to use that driver with xorg 1.14 nor 325.15 with xorg
> 1.15. I only had the problem with the xorg 1.15 + 334.21 combo. The
> bug is either in xorg 1.15 or the nvidia driver.
> 
> -- 
> Mikael Magnusson
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Why is all fine if replacing openbox with fluxbox?

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Meino Cramer