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black screen with mouse cursor after switching to tty and back #1527

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  1. run picom --backend=glx or picom --backend=egl or picom --backend=xrender (no config file)
  2. press ctrl+alt+f3 to switch from graphics to tty (full screen terminal wher you can login)
  3. picom starts doing

    xcb_aux_sync(backend->c->c);

  4. press ctrl+alt+f7 to switch to graphics
  5. xcb_aux_sync sometimes doesn't finish

what does sometimes mean?

if any of these is running unminimized then xcb_aux_sync finishes when I press ctrl+alt+f7 (no black screen, picom works fine):
  • egltri_x11
  • firefox
  • chromium
  • mpv
if any of these is started or unminimized during black screen then xcb_aux_sync finishes and picom gets unstuck and no longer black screen:
  • egltri_x11
  • firefox
  • chromium
  • mpv
  • eglgears_x11
  • glxgears

versions

picom6d67682
nvidia driver610.43.02

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