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Bug 436211

Summary:	[GTK3] Intense flickering when moving editor or view
Product:	[Eclipse Project] Platform	Reporter:	Marc Khouzam <marc.khouzam>
Component:	SWT	Assignee:	Platform-SWT-Inbox <platform-swt-inbox>
Status:	CLOSED DUPLICATE	QA Contact:
Severity:	minor
Priority:	P3	CC:	ericwill, malaperle, peter
Version:	4.4
Target Milestone:	---
Hardware:	PC
OS:	Linux
Whiteboard:

Description Marc Khouzam

2014-05-29 16:18:13 EDT

I'm using GTK 3 with 4.4 RC2.
While I drag an editor tab, my entire screen flickers like crazy.  If I stop moving the mouse, the flicker stops; when I move it again while still dragging the editor, it flickers again.

I'm on Ubuntu 12.04, GTK 3.4.2

If I use "env SWT_GTK3=0" the problem goes away.

I tried back with M6 and I still see the problem, so it is not new.

Comment 1 Marc Khouzam

2014-05-29 16:25:04 EDT

I noticed that moving any view or editor causes the flickering.

I hadn't noticed this bug before because I was disabling GTK3 as it was causing too many problems.  It is much better now but I noticed this bug.

Comment 2 Marc-André Laperle

2014-05-29 16:45:40 EDT

I can reproduce this using Ubuntu 14.04 GTK 3.10.8 with Eclipse 4.4 I20140526-2000.

Comment 3 Marc-André Laperle

2015-07-28 13:19:50 EDT

I can't reproduce this anymore with Eclipse 4.5. Can you?

Comment 4 Marc-André Laperle

2015-07-28 13:44:33 EDT

(In reply to Marc-Andre Laperle from comment #3)
> I can't reproduce this anymore with Eclipse 4.5. Can you?

Never mind. The flickering is still happening when using the metacity window manager. I think I was using metacity as well when I tested with 14.04. There is no flicker in Unity though (12.04, 15.04).

Comment 5 Eric Williams

2018-05-11 15:21:01 EDT


*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 498217 ***