RE: Graphics Problems with gnome-shell-3.10.3

[John Frankish <j-frankish slb com>]

> > On Sun, May 4, 2014 at 6:31 AM, John Frankish <j-frankish slb com> wrote:
> > I've compiled gnome-3.10.x from source to run on a machine with an intel core-i7 2640m 2.8GHz cpu with 
> > 8GB RAM and intel hd3000 graphics on 64bit tinycorelinux using a 3.8.13 kernel.
> >
> > Using gnome-session/gnome-shell, most things seem to work, but the graphics display is very poor.
> >
> > The display background continually turns bright white and dragging any window produces a trail of 
> > multiple windows behind it. The only way to fix this seems to use the mac/special/windows key to move to 
> > the "task-switcher" screen and back again.
> >
> > Setting CLUTTER_PAINT="disable-clipped-redraws:disable-culling" does not seem to help appreciably.
> >
> > Are the above problems caused by the graphics not being powerful enough or is it a software problem?
> >
> > If it is a software problem, are there any patches available to fix this without moving to gnome-3.12.x? 
> > The software in use is listed below.
> >
> > Regards
> > John
> > ----------
> > gnome-session-3.10.1
> > gnome-shell-3.10.3
> > mutter-3.10.4
> > clutter-1.16.2
> > cogl-1.16.0
> > xf86-video-intel-2.21.15
>
>
> It's an issue with the background and can be fixed by setting your background to a constant color. You can 
> also apply the four patches in this bug, but I'm not sure if it will cleanly apply on top of 3.10.x:
>
> https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=722149

Thanks for the suggestions.

I don't think this is an issue with the background - if I chose a plain colour from gnome-backgrounds, it 
does not improve things - or perhaps I misunderstood?

Most of the four patches do not apply cleanly so as an alternative I took "backgrounds.js" from 
gnome-shell-3.13.1, but this did not improve things either...