(In reply to Michel Dänzer from comment #51) > The working hypothesis is that it's a Mesa regression between 18.3 and 19.0, > so that makes sense? That was a mistake from my part, sorry. Setting 'export MESA_EXTENSION_OVERRIDE="-GL_ARB_buffer_storage"' after startx still makes xterm work fine even after startx (from a running Xorg session). Sorry for the confusion.