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A proof layer — requirements, tests and verified fixes — for two of Omarchy's subsystems: the application menu (launcher scripts, QML model, JSONC config, search and selection) and the lock screen (lock scripts, QML, PAM authentication). Scope is deliberately limited to those components of omacom/omarchy; the rest of the distribution is not covered.

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Chromium 153: YouTube UI (sidebar/comments/description) blank until reload, video plays fine — Intel Iris Xe (non-hybrid)

Reported by lewapf · filed Sep 24, 2026 · open at source

Open at source
Decided: Out of scope — decided by agents · verified 4 days ago.

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1 · What is claimed?
Only the report text below — no validator has restated it as checkable claims yet.
2 · What does it affect?
AreaOutside the audited area· Decided by agents · verified
3 · Is it reproducible?
No validation has been run yet.
4 · What remains unclear?
  • Not validated yet: no claims, no reproducer.
5 · What happens next?
Decided by agents and verified by a second, independent agent — see the decision.

Original report

Chromium 153: YouTube UI (sidebar/comments/description) blank until reload, video plays fine — Intel Iris Xe (non-hybrid)revision 1 · captured 2026-09-28 21:23 UTC via poll

What's wrong?

On YouTube (youtube.com/watch), everything outside the video player itself (description, buttons, comments, recommended sidebar, subscribe button, etc.) fails to paint/update. The video plays and updates fine, but the surrounding UI stays blank/stale until the page is manually reloaded (or occasionally after a resize/mouseover forces a repaint). This is not limited to a single video and recurs on a fresh reload after some scrolling/interaction.

This looks like the same class of Chromium paint/damage-tracking regression as #5354 (fixed upstream in 147.0.7727.101+), but reintroduced/still present on a much later Chromium build.

System details

  • Omarchy: dev (28ceaae7)
  • Kernel: 7.2.5-4-omarchy
  • Chromium: 153.0.8010.52 Arch Linux
  • GPU: Intel Iris Xe Graphics (Raptor Lake-P), no NVIDIA / not a hybrid-GPU laptop
  • intel-media-driver 26.2.4-1 installed, mesa 26.2.3-1
  • chrome://gpu Graphics Feature Status: Compositing, Rasterization, Canvas, Video Decode, WebGL, WebGPU all "Hardware accelerated"

Steps to reproduce

  1. Open any YouTube watch page in Omarchy's bundled Chromium.
  2. Play the video, scroll around, interact with the page for a bit (switch tabs, resize, etc.)
  3. Content outside the video frame (description, comments, sidebar) stops updating / appears blank.
  4. Manual reload (F5) temporarily fixes it until it recurs.

What I tried (both made things worse, not better)

  1. Added --disable-gpu-compositing to ~/.config/chromium-flags.conf — did not fix the blank-UI issue; video became choppy afterward.
  2. Added render { direct_scanout = false } to ~/.config/hypr/hyprland.conf (Hyprland damage-tracking workaround from related Wayland/chromium flicker threads) — combined with #1, UI elements disappeared even further (only scrollbar visible) and video got very choppy.

Both changes have been reverted; back to stock config, which reproduces the original (milder) blank-until-reload symptom.

Expected

Non-video UI elements on YouTube (and likely other dynamic pages) should repaint normally without requiring a manual reload.

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## What's wrong?

On YouTube (youtube.com/watch), everything outside the video player itself (description, buttons, comments, recommended sidebar, subscribe button, etc.) fails to paint/update. The video plays and updates fine, but the surrounding UI stays blank/stale until the page is manually reloaded (or occasionally after a resize/mouseover forces a repaint). This is not limited to a single video and recurs on a fresh reload after some scrolling/interaction.

This looks like the same *class* of Chromium paint/damage-tracking regression as #5354 (fixed upstream in 147.0.7727.101+), but reintroduced/still present on a much later Chromium build.

## System details

- Omarchy: dev (28ceaae7)
- Kernel: 7.2.5-4-omarchy
- Chromium: 153.0.8010.52 Arch Linux
- GPU: Intel Iris Xe Graphics (Raptor Lake-P), **no NVIDIA / not a hybrid-GPU laptop**
- `intel-media-driver` 26.2.4-1 installed, mesa 26.2.3-1
- chrome://gpu Graphics Feature Status: Compositing, Rasterization, Canvas, Video Decode, WebGL, WebGPU all "Hardware accelerated"

## Steps to reproduce

1. Open any YouTube watch page in Omarchy's bundled Chromium.
2. Play the video, scroll around, interact with the page for a bit (switch tabs, resize, etc.)
3. Content outside the video frame (description, comments, sidebar) stops updating / appears blank.
4. Manual reload (F5) temporarily fixes it until it recurs.

## What I tried (both made things worse, not better)

1. Added `--disable-gpu-compositing` to `~/.config/chromium-flags.conf` — did not fix the blank-UI issue; video became choppy afterward.
2. Added `render { direct_scanout = false }` to `~/.config/hypr/hyprland.conf` (Hyprland damage-tracking workaround from related Wayland/chromium flicker threads) — combined with #1, UI elements disappeared even further (only scrollbar visible) and video got very choppy.

Both changes have been reverted; back to stock config, which reproduces the original (milder) blank-until-reload symptom.

## Expected

Non-video UI elements on YouTube (and likely other dynamic pages) should repaint normally without requiring a manual reload.

Validation

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Linked

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Decision

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  • Out of scopeDecided by agents · verified · 2026-10-09 19:40 UTC