Bug 183684

Summary:	Compositing does not clear the graphics card memory
Product:	[Plasma] kwin	Reporter:	Alex <allo>
Component:	general	Assignee:	KWin default assignee <kwin-bugs-null>
Status:	RESOLVED DUPLICATE
Severity:	normal
Priority:	NOR
Version:	unspecified
Target Milestone:	---
Platform:	Debian testing
OS:	Linux
Latest Commit:		Version Fixed In:

Description Alex 2009-02-08 14:44:15 UTC

Version:            (using KDE 4.2.0)
OS:                Linux
Installed from:    Debian testing/unstable Packages

Images from Compositing seem to stay in the graphic card RAM. If you logout and login again, and click on the splash-screen (so the splash goes away), you can see a mosaic of images and other screen parts from the previous session. It seems there is not possiblity to clear the Video-RAM to prevent this. This may be a privacy issue on shared systems, and its just unbeautiful for all others.

I'm using nvidia nonfree-driver NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-180.22-pkg2.run

Comment 1 lucas 2009-02-08 17:11:49 UTC

What you are experiencing is a distribution-specific patch bug. Further details are available in bug 170462.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 170462 ***