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Finn Årup Nielsen
Asked: 2014-01-16 04:42:01 +0800 CST

gnome-settings-daemon flickering ghost window

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In Ubuntu 12.04, when I login through lightdm, a "ghost" window appears. This window does not show any content. Instead it flickers its borders and move down vertically.

When I xprop it, it reports to be WM_CLASS(STRING) = "gnome-settings-daemon", "Gnome-settings-daemon".

I can get rid of the flickering ghost window by twice killing it: 

killall -9 gnome-settings-daemon
killall -9 gnome-settings-daemon

This stops the flickering window.

Restarting gnome-settings-daemon from the terminal I do not get a flickering window, but my .xsession-errors file reports:

failed to create drawable
compiz (core) - Warn: glXCreatePixmap failed
compiz (core) - Warn: Couldn't bind background pixmap 0x3e00001 to texture
compiz (decor) - Warn: failed to bind pixmap to texture

Previous errors in .xsession-errors are:

compiz (decor) - Warn: failed to bind pixmap to texture
compiz (opengl) - Info: Couldn't bind redirected window 0xa0000b to texture

What is happening?

gnome

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