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I wish I knew what to call it.
It's a rectangular area of pixels that get disconnected from my desktop.
It happens when I browse a file menu sometimes, the rectangle area shows up at the same place and same size.
Like if I click edit on a web browser, maybe the rectangle will take the shape of the edit menu, and until I re-click the edit menu, I have this rectangle void that has strange properties.
Sorry I wish I knew how to explain it or even knew what to call it.
It's in the upper right side of the picture I posted on here.
No f5 doesn't fix it and I don't know what my window manager is.
Metacity is one of my processes and I'm also using Compiz but to be honest, Compiz hasn't been working for me completely and I'm wondering if it's not disabled.
I typed
: metacity --replace
in a regular terminal and my screen flickered.
I'm not sure if the problem is fixed or not because it's a random thing. I will pay attention and report back.
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