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its a bug with cairo and the radeon driver:

https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=47266

on debian you can pin libcairo to fix the issue. /etc/apt/preferences:

  Package: libcairo2
  Pin:version 1.10.2-7
  Pin-Priority: 1001

  Package: libcairo-gobject2
  Pin:version 1.10.2-7
  Pin-Priority: 1001

Fantastic. I've been trying to pinpoint the cause of it since aeons. It's absolutely dreadful in awesome wm and at some point I laid the blame on (cairo-)XCB, or some Xft bug, but it cropped back too, only less often, under gnome/xfce.

That explains it perfectly. My older Gentoo build has an even older version of libcairo installed. Thanks.

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