https://faq.i3wm.org/questions/Frequently asked questions and answers about the i3 window managerenCopyright i3, 2012Thu, 27 Jun 2013 06:24:49 +0000https://faq.i3wm.org/question/2069/how-to-force-i3-to-redrawreposition-screen/I have some problems with newsbeuter, chrome and i3 as shown on this image: imagebin.org/262258 The problem solves when I open new terminal window. I guess this causes i3 to redraw or reposition windows so garbage in mmy newsbeutter window dissapears. Is there any way to do this manually ?Sun, 23 Jun 2013 10:03:53 +0000https://faq.i3wm.org/question/2069/how-to-force-i3-to-redrawreposition-screen/https://faq.i3wm.org/question/2069/how-to-force-i3-to-redrawreposition-screen/?answer=2099#post-id-2099You are not very specific about your problem, but I suspect it’s the message "Created new browser window in existing session", which seems to be caused by starting chrome. I suspect that when you set your default browser in newsbeuter to a simple shell script which starts chrome but disregards the standard output/standard error, the problem goes away: #!/bin/sh exec google-chrome $* >/dev/null 2>&1 Also, as a general hint: i3 never draws window contents, it only draws borders. When an application has any kind of corruption in its window, that is usually either a driver problem or caused by the application itself. In terminal apps, Ctrl-L usually triggers a refresh.Thu, 27 Jun 2013 06:24:49 +0000https://faq.i3wm.org/question/2069/how-to-force-i3-to-redrawreposition-screen/?answer=2099#post-id-2099