Is there a command that marks the screen as "dirty" and hopefully redraws it? If I do a control ALT F1 and the F7 this in effect redraws the screen. I am getting video artifacts that I think is in the nvidia driver. the switching console works - I was just hoping there is a more convenient way. some command or something. Thanks, Jerry
What about ^L, which is a common redraw keystroke for applications and shells (although it will also clear the screen on a shell). On 14/01/2011, at 6:54 AM, Jerry Geis wrote:> Is there a command that marks the screen as "dirty" and hopefully > redraws it? > > If I do a control ALT F1 and the F7 this in effect redraws the screen. > I am getting video artifacts that I think is in the nvidia driver. > the switching console works - I was just hoping there is a more > convenient way. > some command or something. > > Thanks, > > Jerry > > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS at centos.org > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Jerry Geis wrote:> Is there a command that marks the screen as "dirty" and hopefully > redraws it? > > If I do a control ALT F1 and the F7 this in effect redraws the screen. > I am getting video artifacts that I think is in the nvidia driver. > the switching console works - I was just hoping there is a more > convenient way. > some command or something.Where - the entire monitor, or just an xterm (in which case, <ctrl-L>)? mark
> > Where - the entire monitor, or just an xterm (in which case, <ctrl-L>)? > > mark >I see the video remaining all over the screen the entire monitor. xterm is not even running. The remaining video is mixed in with my firefox screen. I'll try the control L in a while. jerry
On Thu, Jan 13, 2011 at 9:54 AM, Jerry Geis <geisj at pagestation.com> wrote:> Is there a command that marks the screen as "dirty" and hopefully > redraws it?Look at the manual for the xrefresh command. Also check the documentation for your window manager or desktop (probably metacity) -- there may be a menu option or similar that you can enable.