annoying unexpected red strips on screen

[Erich Dollansky]

Hi,

On Sun, 31 Mar 2013 11:26:32 -0700
Kevin Oberman <rkoberman at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Sun, Mar 31, 2013 at 1:55 AM, Justin Yang <YZMSQ at 163.com> wrote:
> > These days I found some quirks about this issue. The red strips are
> > only within some applications' windows themselves, which had never
> > been seen in my Opera browser, while only shown in other
> > applications, such as Firefox, eclipse, chromium and so on.
> >
> 
> I can confirm that they show up in specific windows, not the scree
> itself and I see them most often in Firefox, but I have also seen them
> in gnome-terminals and most any other including the wallpaper, which
> is, after all, just a window that happens to cover the entire screen
> and has no borders or decorations.

I have had some stripes - but not only red - yesterday in claws-mail.
The application was busy and could not redraw the window content during
this time. All other windows have been normal.

Erich