Google Chrome Black Screen in Xubuntu 14.04
Solution 1
Looks like this problem was related to the Xinerama and proprietary NVIDIA drivers.
The black screen disappeared as soon as I switched to 304.117 version of NVIDIA drivers. Although, incorrect positioning of the window is still present, but I can coupe with this until better solution emerge.
I hope this will help someone.
Solution 2
Try disabling GPU compositing on all pages from the setting available on chrome://flags/ and see if it works. Hope this helps!
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Slava Fomin II
Updated on September 18, 2022Comments
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Slava Fomin II over 1 year
I have an issue with the latest update of Google Chrome on my Xubuntu 14.04.
When I open a browser, it's webpage region is completely black, only toolbars are visible. When I try to resize or move browser's window it jumps to the bottom right corner of the screen and I can't get it out of there.
The screenshot:
I've tried to re-install it, but it didn't help.
How do I fix it?
UPDATE #1
I've installed the latest version of
chromium-browser
just to see how it will perform.There is no black screen in it, but I still have the problem of moving/resizing it's window.
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Mr.TK almost 10 yearsAnd what about lower versions?
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Slava Fomin II almost 10 years@Mr.TK you mean to install previous version? I'm not sure how to do this properly. I've installed Chrome from official Google's deb-package.
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Slava Fomin II almost 10 yearsThank you for your suggestion! Is there another way to change this flags? I can't change them from inside the browser itself for obvious reasons =)
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Ritik almost 10 yearsDid you try reinstalling chrome again?
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Slava Fomin II almost 10 yearsI just downloaded latest deb file from Google Chrome's website and re-installed it with GUI. Still no joy.
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Ritik almost 10 yearsplease can you post a screenshot here?
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Slava Fomin II almost 10 yearsI've updated my question with the screenshot.
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Ritik almost 10 yearsClick drop-down menu on top-right corner –> click “Settings” –> click “Show advanced settings…” on the bottom –> scroll to the bottom, and uncheck “Use hardware acceleration when available" Try using this
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Slava Fomin II almost 10 yearsI can't access settings cause this interface is rendered the same way as a web-page does. It just black. Is there a way to do this using some config files for example?
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Ritik almost 10 yearsYou can try disabling your plugins.
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Slava Fomin II almost 10 yearsGood idea. How do I do this?
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Ritik almost 10 yearsTry opening an icognito window if u have your extensions disabled in icognito.
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Ritik almost 10 yearsOr you can just right click on the plugin icons and click remove from chrome
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Ritik almost 10 yearsWhats the status?
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Slava Fomin II almost 10 yearsIncognito window has the same issue.
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Ritik almost 10 yearsTry disabling GPU process from task manager
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Ritik almost 10 yearsLet us continue this discussion in chat.
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bain almost 10 yearsArch Wiki Xinerama "Warning: As of August 2013, Xinerama is broken when using the proprietary NVIDIA driver from 319 upwards. Users wishing to use Xinerama with the NVIDIA driver should use the NVIDIA 313 driver, which works only with Linux kernels earlier than 3.10."
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James S. almost 10 yearsI have had precisely this problem. It remains unclear to me when (or if!) Xinerame (or the proprietary NVIDIA drivers) will be fixed.