NVidia and probably xcompmgr

September 23, 2017

I have a Dell Vostro 5459 with Arch Linux. Previously, whenever I do a hibernation, and resume will produce a black screen, which I can do nothing.

Then I believed that one of the NVidia updates fixed this issue.

However, very soon later, I faced another issue is, resuming from hibernation causes Chromium with freeze content, or the content doesn’t redraw. This not only happen to Chromium, but also Opera and SMPlayer. I thought it is caused by NVidia. Tried a lot of solution, search nothing from Internet. I also installed “bbswitch”, nothing solved.

But just now, before I did a hibernation, I tried to exit every application related to the display or possibly doing some graphic things. Then I remembered that I always run “xcompmgr”, as it enables the composite feature on OpenBox. I killed it, and do a hibernation. And now resume from hibernation, and Chromium works fine.

So, possibly it is “xcompmgr” that causes the trouble all the time since NVidia fixed. To be confirmed.