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Bug 436211 - [GTK3] Intense flickering when moving editor or view
Summary: [GTK3] Intense flickering when moving editor or view
Status: CLOSED DUPLICATE of bug 498217
Alias: None
Product: Platform
Classification: Eclipse Project
Component: SWT (show other bugs)
Version: 4.4   Edit
Hardware: PC Linux
: P3 minor (vote)
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Assignee: Platform-SWT-Inbox CLA
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Reported: 2014-05-29 16:18 EDT by Marc Khouzam CLA
Modified: 2018-05-11 15:21 EDT (History)
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Description Marc Khouzam CLA 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 CLA 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 CLA 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 CLA 2015-07-28 13:19:50 EDT 
I can't reproduce this anymore with Eclipse 4.5. Can you?
Comment 4 Marc-André Laperle CLA 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 CLA 2018-05-11 15:21:01 EDT 

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