Visual glitches everywhere
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Hi, I use Mint 20 Cinnamon, ever since I updated to Vivaldi 3.4.2066 there's been visual bugs making the browser completely unusable. Buttons are being displayed in places they shouldn't, some text isn't going away while scrolling down, but most notably, black spots cover most of the view whenever I drag or resize the window. If I close and reopen the browser it fixes the visual bugs, but they come back the moment I start doing anything. I've tried reinstalling the browser but it hasn't changed anything. I haven't seen anyone else have this problem, help?
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Same here, but the UI flashes everywhere.
Indeed, i have tried all possible solutions, from creating new profile and reinstalling, to js garbage collection analysis …
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None of what either of you describes afflicts mine in Arch KDE. I have a Mint 19.3 Cinnamon VM that shortly i'll fire up & see. If that also plays up as you described then i'll update you... if it behaves fine then i'll upgrade it to 20 & retry.
Fwiw, based on mentions of
@Stev18 said in Visual glitches everywhere:
black spots cover most of the view whenever I drag or resize the window
...it sounds to me like your Mint C compositing is not working well.
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I have Mint 20 on a laptop and it works fine. Btw last time I use it it was few weeks ago. This noon I try again and I update this post if anything goes bad. Sure I miss an update to Vivaldi and Mint in general.
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If what you describe is the same thing that sometimes happens here on my machine, it could be a problem with the graphics driver and/or OpenGL backend.
Do you by any chance have a NVidia graphics card and the proprietary driver used? I noticed that all Vivaldi go completely berzerk when waking the machine from sleep, very close to what you described. It started a few weeks ago and I assume it could be connected to NVidia doing some changes to suspend/wakeup-handling in their drivers. At least, recent update messages have announced that.
The only thing that helps is closing all Vivaldi windows and making sure all processes are gone. Then opening a new windows results in no errors. Otherwise, trying to open a new window while the berzerky-ones are still alive will only lead to the same problem.
It might be something completely different though.
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@Stev18 @TheQuantumAlpha
Hi, this sounds like a GPU driver/Vivaldi issue coming with latest Chromium update.
The Chromium devs add a lot most older GPU to the blocklist.
Disable hardware acceleration in settings > webpages to check.
You can try vivaldi://flags/#ignore-gpu-blocklist to switch the blocklist off and enable HW acceleration but as most flags it is experimental and not supported.
I use Opensuse with Intel HD 4000, GTX 760 and RTX 2060 and have no issues.Cheers, mib
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Could be an omen warning that a newer computer should be acquired as soon as possible.
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@Priest72 Onya Damien.
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@mib2berlin Hm, I have two RX6800...
And all my drivers are working perfectly , and just tried with an RX5700, four RTX8000, RTX2090, AMD Radeon, and the results were the same...
Now i'm beside a pile of GPUs :smiling_face_with_open_mouth_cold_sweat:
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@TheQuantumAlpha
Hey, nice gallery of cards.
It is may a different issue to @Stev18 mention blocking artifacts.
Did you try to disable hardware acceleration?
Whats about Chromium 86 on your system?Cheers, mib
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V-S in my M-C 19.3 VM works fine, no hassles.
Doing the upgrade now to M-C 20.
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yup! done all the troubleshooting procedures, and came to conclusion that it's the Java/css ui that bugs...
Collecting GPUs cards like pokemon card
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@Stev18 Hi,
How you do that?
- Click the blue link then go to step 3., or the magnifying glass at the top right then to step 2.
- Click the cogs icon in that search box
- In the (new) searchbox type "glitch" without the quotes
- Click on Vivaldi for Linux in the Categories below
- Choose Post Time newer than a month (or 3 months to include potential Snapshot threads) at the right, since you said "since I updated to Vivaldi 3.4.2066"
- Click the blue Search button
Enjoy 30 results that will tell you that it's a Chromium issue and you could try disabling the hardware acceleration (and/or more details). You may also try running Vivaldi with the
--use-gl=desktop
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@Steffie Aaaaaaaaaand finally, 18 hours later the horrifically treacle-slow upgrade from 19 to 20 is over. APT is a ghastly package manager! It is so inefficient as a package management system -- much slower than Fedora's
dnf
, & vaaaaaaaaaaaaastly slower than Arch'spacman
. Ugh. I am so glad i discovered life beyond the Buntus several years ago.Anyway, to the salient point: in my now Mint 20 Cinnamon VM, the current Vivaldi-Stable works perfectly fine. It's a pity the OS is not as fine as the browser.
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@Steffie Patience is for the elder people only. :face_with_stuck-out_tongue_winking_eye:
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@kahukura I wish i was only "elder" -- in fact i'm prehistoric.
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@Priest72 No, I'm not going to advetising products and I dont recive money, you can be sure about that. I only post without warring that someone could be ironically take it for that.
What about open a new thread calling: "What pc/laptop did you use with Vivaldi (or Linux)? Talking about specs and other things that works with..." it's possibile to open it? Yes? No?
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@Steffie pacman is just an awesome name to begin with, another plus for Arch & the Archies, I dare to say I would use any distro that would have it even if it weren't rolling (with the right amount of money I mean :face_savouring_delicious_food: ). From all the others yay is fun, dnf is cool and reminds me of a notorious video game, the rest of them is for my taste very meh...
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