Electric Sheep has black bars on the image

[rjzak]

I managed to get Electric Sheep to compile on Debian 11 Bullseye. But the application has wide black bars over the rendered image.

[UsernameRox]

Have you (ever) tried to start (with) the:

electricsheep-preferences

and changed the settings?
Best greetings

[rjzak]

I'm realising now that electricsheep-preferences didn't get built for some reason. No errors either. Odd, I'll look further.

[UsernameRox]

just try to open

electricsheep-preferences

in the terminal.
How have you installed electricsheep on debian?

[rjzak]

Electric Sheep isn't in the Debian repo (but Flam3 is, odd). I suppose I shouldn't be surprised, getting ahold of libglee was also challenging, since it seems to be obsolete and not supported.

But checking again, seems I was mistaken and that electricsheep-preferences was installed in /usr/local/bin, but I didn't see it with the other built binaries, hence my confusion.

I tried a few options and I didn't manage to get it to do anything differently. Under Display, the options for multi monitor mode and Interpolation didn't have any impact.

What's interesting is that the F2 and F3 options, which show informative overlays, display fine. But the display of the animation has the bars. Another observation: the info overlay says the CPU usage is 0%, but it's actually ~20%.

[UsernameRox]

IIRC the black vertical lines could be related to vsync or compiz - try another Desktop Environment/or disable it in the (Compositor) settings.
But first: Do you use some kind of Hardware Acceleration or a GPU-Terminal (like alacritty)?
Try a CPU-one😉

On my Debian-related system I run Electricsheep**.exe** with Wine(Bottles) - it just feels so wrong (in many ways). On Arch-based systems you have no struggle to start with electricsheep; on NixOS too.
All 3 systems shows me a cpu-activity ~10%.

[rjzak]

I'm using xfce, and tried disabling "Enable display compositing" in the "Window Manager Tweaks" setting, no change.
Compiz isn't installed, and I'm not using alacritty or other GPU-accelerated terminal.