Intermittent bug (yeay)

[Yamakaky]

Since about a month, sometimes this program doesn't work. I have to launch it a few times to invert the colours. I'm sorry my bug report isn't very precise, do you know what info I could give you?

[zoltanp]

Hi, the following information would be useful:

• distribution, version, architecture
• graphics hardware you have have in the system
• graphics driver you are using
• if you run xrandr-invert-colors with the -d (debug) argument, does it show any unexpected message?

[Yamakaky]

• Archlinux x86_64
• Intel HD Graphics 3000
• https://www.archlinux.org/packages/extra/x86_64/xf86-video-intel/
• No, it doesn't output anything (except "debug output enabled")
• Xorg 1.18.4
  It was working some time ago so it may be related to an update.

[zoltanp]

Thanks for the information. Because there is no error message (so the X server has responded success to xrandr-invert-colors), I'm tempted to say that there is some regression in either the X server, or X drivers.
I don't know how this works in Archlinux, but for further debugging my only idea is to try to downgrade some X related packages and see if the downgrade fixes this issue. Then contacting upstream.
I've found a list of X-related packages and their version/update information here:
https://www.archlinux.org/groups/x86_64/xorg/

[zoltanp]

@Yamakaky from the referenced issue, #12, it looks possible that some other color calibration tool might be interfering with xrandr-invert-color . If this issue still persists for you, I recommend checking that RedShift or something similar is not running in the background

[Yamakaky]

For some reason, I don't have the problem anymore... Surely a bug fixed upstream