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    Opera 32 on Ubuntu bookmarks page rendering broken

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    • jamesisin
      jamesisin last edited by

      This odd rendering, an apparent echoing of the top-left portion of the browser, only effects the Show All Bookmarks page. Possibly relatedly, the bookmarks popup menu appears empty (though can be clicked if you make good guesses about the locations of things inside it). This was not the case with Opera 31, and this is effecting all users on this system.

      You can get more detailed information and see an image of the page rendering at my blog:

      A High-Tech Blech!

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      • jamesisin
        jamesisin last edited by

        A High-Tech Blech!

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        • gustavwiz
          gustavwiz last edited by

          Start opera from the terminal with this command:

          opera-beta --disable-gpu-compositing
          
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          • peterb0309
            peterb0309 last edited by

            How can I get rid of this problem but still using Gpu-compositing?

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            • peterb0309
              peterb0309 last edited by

              I realize that when I enable-gpu-accelerate >> open Opera >> bookmark rendering broken
              BUT
              (continuing) open New Private Window >> everything is OK!

              Hope this helps and somebody finds the way to fix it soon.

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              • jamesisin
                jamesisin last edited by

                I'm not running beta so my command was "opera --disable-gpu-compositing", but that did fix the rendering issue in Opera 32.

                Is there a setting I can use (perhaps under flags/) to make this permanent? I mean, at least until they fix this bug of course.

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                • jamesisin
                  jamesisin last edited by

                  Also, I was able to confirm peterb0309's behavior. If you run Opera 32 normally bookmarks do not render correctly, but if you open a New Private Window and navigate that window to Show All Bookmarks it does render correctly.

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                  • i-am-mike
                    i-am-mike last edited by

                    Same behavior on latest opera-develper 33 on arch-linux.

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                    • jamesisin
                      jamesisin last edited by

                      I poked through opera:flags and didn't find anything which appeared to effect this matter.

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                      • i-am-mike
                        i-am-mike last edited by

                        I had problems with Chrome GPU rendering, which started lagging after a few minutes of browsing, until it became unusable, when used with the Hardware Acceleration option - ON.
                        As Opera is based on Chromium as well, it suffers from some GPU rendering problems, which caused the defective rendering in the Bookmarks menu, and when opening some extensions' menu (like adblock).

                        The solution is to launch Opera (or Chrome), with the following command, which disables the problematic DRI3, and reverts to the old one:

                        LIBGL_DRI3_DISABLE=1 opera --ignore-gpu-blacklist

                        Hope I saved someone a few days of Trichotillomania 🙂

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                        • gustavwiz
                          gustavwiz last edited by

                          @peterb0309:

                          How can I get rid of this problem but still using Gpu-compositing?

                          You should install the proprietary driver from your graphics card manufacturer and use that one instead of the default open-source (x.org).

                          If you're using Ubuntu, you can probably easily change the driver by opening "Software and Updates" -> "Additional Drivers".

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                          • jamesisin
                            jamesisin last edited by

                            I have confirmed that switching my video driver from xorg to the latest Nvidia proprietary driver (using Software and Updates --> Additional Drivers) does fix the rendering issue.

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                            • jamesisin
                              jamesisin last edited by

                              Unfortunately, my Lenovo w500 at home has no additional drivers available...

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                              • gustavwiz
                                gustavwiz last edited by

                                Does it have amd/ati, nvidia or intel (integrated) graphics?

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                                • jamesisin
                                  jamesisin last edited by

                                  I guess it's ATI Mobility, but I can't check from here. Is there a command I can use to get that easily?

                                  Behavior is essentially the same though: private windows do not exhibit the problem. I did notice that any window on start can render in this broken manner. A restart of the application has fixed this both times it has happened.

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                                  • sgunhouse
                                    sgunhouse Moderator Volunteer last edited by

                                    Does disabling "Use hardware acceleration when available" in Settings help? You'll need to enable Advanced settings (bottom of the Browser page) to see it, then it'll be right above that.

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                                    • zluka13
                                      zluka13 last edited by

                                      You should install the proprietary driver from your graphics card manufacturer and use that one instead of the default open-source (x.org).

                                      AMD no more support graphic cards below hd5000 for linux.

                                      Does disabling "Use hardware acceleration when available" in Settings help? You'll need to enable Advanced settings (bottom of the Browser page) to see it, then it'll be right above that.

                                      It helps but make YouTube sucks when HD resolution used.

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                                      • jamesisin
                                        jamesisin last edited by

                                        sgunhouse - Yes, disabling hardware acceleration does allow non-private windows to function as expected. (Private windows remain unaffected by this problem.)

                                        An update came out today and I was hoping it may address this, but no luck...

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                                        • avl
                                          avl Opera last edited by

                                          This is very unfortunate, and due to a bug in the X.org drivers: https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=90264 . This bug report also contains a patch that fixes the issue.

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                                          • A Former User
                                            A Former User last edited by

                                            @avi - I'm curious... If, and only if, you have time could you elaborate on how to use those patches? I saw one at 40 and one at 45 and somebody further commented that they worked. I'd be interested in testing this but, frankly, I have no idea. So, if you don't have time then don't let me interrupt you - I might be able to figure it out on my own or Google might have an answer. :doh:

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