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Since I updated ubuntu to 14.04, I have some issue with chromium, the display is remanent when switching virtual desktop or appear when the application is minimized.

I found that the issue is gpu-related since when I start the browser with --disable-gpu I have not the issue.

I don't know if this issue is related to chromium new version, nvidia driver version or other thing since each of those package where upgraded during distribution upgrade ...

ii  chromium-browser  34.0.1847.116-0ubuntu2   amd64   Chromium browser
ii  nvidia-304        304.117-0ubuntu1         amd64   NVIDIA legacy binary driver - version 304.117

If someone have this kind of issue and know a workaround or something to try ...

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  • See this and this bug report. Apr 24, 2014 at 11:53
  • I'm behind the 2nd link that @saiarcot895 posted (Ubuntu bug 1311172). I added your --disable_gpu observation to my issue report. Apr 24, 2014 at 13:35
  • @ArenCambre and @fievel: can you try the --disable-gpu-compositing flag instead of --disable-gpu? Apr 24, 2014 at 14:09
  • --disable-gpu-compositing does not fix the problem. Only --disable-gpu or disabling 3D accleration entirely (in the VM settings) works for me. Apr 24, 2014 at 14:45
  • same issue for me on my laptop with nvidia 740M using nvidia recomended drivers
    – pomaxa
    Apr 28, 2014 at 16:34

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If you're running this on Oracle VirtualBox, uncheck the Enable 3D Acceleration box under the Display settings. Your VM has to be turned off before you can do that.

If not on VirtualBox, it would be interesting if there's another way to disable 3D acceleration.

Something changed between 13.10 and 14.04. I had Enable 3D Acceleration checked previously with my Xubuntu 13.10 VM, but Chromium broke on that, too.

EDIT: This appears to slow down everything. I didn't realize 3D acceleration had such a big effect.

EDIT 2: It appears that chromium-browser --disable-gpu may be a better solution as it doesn't require me to disable 3D acceleration, and it is workable for people who don't use Ubuntu as a VM guest.

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