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Graphical glitches in the system tray, any way to fix?
Posted: Fri May 17, 2024 2:44 am
by FloraMae
So, there is an issue I've seen since day one but it gets more annoying with each passing day and now I'm curious if there is a fix for it.
What I have noticed:
* the system tray has graphical glitches
* some browser components (such as the wundermap on wunderground when zooming in and out) will have glitches
Screenshot of tray as an example
VGA compatible controller: NVIDIA Corporation GT216GLM [Quadro FX 880M] (rev a2)
nouveau driver apparently
Anyone have any ideas?
Re: Graphical glitches in the system tray, any way to fix?
Posted: Fri May 17, 2024 5:28 am
by bigpup
I assume you are using BookwormPup64 10.0.6
Your image looks normal to me.
Not really sure what you are talking about.
The desktop tray is never going to be a high end graphics display.
Maybe try to install and use a Nvidia specific driver not the nouveau one.
This is how to do it in bookwormPup64 10.0.6
viewtopic.php?t=11038
Re: Graphical glitches in the system tray, any way to fix?
Posted: Fri May 17, 2024 5:46 am
by FloraMae
bigpup wrote: ↑Fri May 17, 2024 5:28 am
I assume you are using BookwormPup64 10.0.6
Your image looks normal to me.
Not really sure what you are talking about.
The desktop tray is never going to be a high end graphics display.
Maybe try to install and use a Nvidia specific driver not the nouveau one.
This is how to do it in bookwormPup64 10.0.6
viewtopic.php?t=11038
The screenshot doesn't show it very well but sometimes when I right click an icon in the tray, artifacts from the right click menu will remain over the icon for minutes or more. It's fairly random. Wine programs really act up the most.
Here is another image of wundermap in a browser showing some glitches.
Re: Graphical glitches in the system tray, any way to fix?
Posted: Fri May 17, 2024 9:54 am
by mikewalsh
@FloraMae :-
Like m'colleague, I too can see nothing wrong in the screenshot. Doesn't mean it can't happen; I've had this occur myself. Sometimes I'll get a notification come through in the T-Bird "BirdTray" launcher icon in the tray.....and for several minutes afterwards, the adjacent icon displays the BirdTray icon as its background! A little later, I'll look again, and it's back to normal once more.
Especially when using a discrete GPU, there's such a combination of variables at play. What exact card? What exact driver? What version of JWM? Which notification icons are affected? Some monitors seem to be more prone to this; what resolution are you running at? You'll never get to the bottom of it, and TBH, you learn to live with it....
With the sheer number of different things going on, frankly it's a small miracle that the Linux kernel copes with them all as well as it does.
Mike. 
Re: Graphical glitches in the system tray, any way to fix?
Posted: Fri May 17, 2024 2:39 pm
by FloraMae
Slight update. The glitches on wunderground seems to be present in floorp but not librewolf. Not tested other browsers yet.
As for the tray glitches, I have noticed it seems to be especially common with wine apps that use the systray.
Re: Graphical glitches in the system tray, any way to fix?
Posted: Fri May 17, 2024 3:14 pm
by bigpup
Welcome to Linux software 
Never used a Linux software program, that did not have some little bug in it.
Wine operation of software has never been 100% perfect.
It is more about can it actually run the program.
Never indicated what version of BookwormPup64
But you need to be using BookwormPup64 10.0.6
Latest version.
Re: Graphical glitches in the system tray, any way to fix?
Posted: Fri May 17, 2024 3:44 pm
by FloraMae
bigpup wrote: ↑Fri May 17, 2024 3:14 pm
Welcome to Linux software
Never used a Linux software program, that did not have some little bug in it.
Wine operation of software has never been 100% perfect.
It is more about can it actually run the program.
Never indicated what version of BookwormPup64
But you need to be using BookwormPup64 10.0.6
Latest version.
Sorry, yes, using latest.