emacs 22.1 redraws window for each character 12 times, each mouse increment

[Andrew Ghali <andrewg@16paws.com>]

I can barely write this because the window is flashing like crazy, mainly
all white.  Every character causes like a dozzen redraws and eachmouse
twitch does the same.  This is after I turned off blinking cursor, because
it was a strobe.  Now, at least, when I'm not doing anything, it stops.

I have no text cursor, only the mouse cursor.  This happened on a working
system that I made the terrible mistake of upgrading from X.org 6.9 to
7.3.  I have learned my lesson: never upgrade X again.  If a posr won't
work with the old X version ("Oh, your files are in the wrong place so I
won't compile because I know better than you") then it is a package I can
live without.

Please help.  It seems that FreeBSD is getting less and less reliable.  So
sad.

Andrew


In GNU Emacs 22.1.1 (i386-pc-freebsd, GTK+ Version 2.10.14)
 of 2007-10-20 on neoranga.16paws.com
Windowing system distributor `The X.Org Foundation', version 11.0.10400000
configured using `configure  '--with-gtk' '--x-libraries=/usr/local/lib' '--x-includes=/usr/local/include' '--prefix=/usr/local' '--mandir=/usr/local/man' '--infodir=/usr/local/info/' 'i386-freebsd' 'build_alias=i386-freebsd' 'host_alias=i386-freebsd' 'target_alias=i386-freebsd' 'CC=cc' 'CFLAGS=-O2 -fno-strict-aliasing -pipe ''

Important settings:
  value of $LC_ALL: nil
  value of $LC_COLLATE: nil
  value of $LC_CTYPE: nil
  value of $LC_MESSAGES: nil
  value of $LC_MONETARY: nil
  value of $LC_NUMERIC: nil
  value of $LC_TIME: nil
  value of $LANG: nil
  locale-coding-system: nil
  default-enable-multibyte-characters: t

Major mode: Fundamental

Minor modes in effect:
  tooltip-mode: t
  tool-bar-mode: t
  mouse-wheel-mode: t
  menu-bar-mode: t
  file-name-shadow-mode: t
  global-font-lock-mode: t
  font-lock-mode: t
  unify-8859-on-encoding-mode: t
  utf-translate-cjk-mode: t
  auto-compression-mode: t
  line-number-mode: t
  transient-mark-mode: identity

Recent input:
<help-echo> <help-echo> <help-echo> <help-echo> <help-echo> 
<help-echo> <help-echo> <help-echo> <help-echo> <menu-bar> 
<options> <blink-cursor-mode> <down-mouse-1> <mouse-1> 
<down-mouse-1> <mouse-1> <double-down-mouse-1> <double-mouse-1> 
<triple-down-mouse-1> <triple-mouse-1> <triple-down-mouse-1> 
<triple-mouse-1> <triple-down-mouse-1> <triple-mouse-1> 
<triple-down-mouse-1> <triple-mouse-1> <triple-down-mouse-1> 
<triple-mouse-1> <help-echo> <help-echo> <help-echo> 
<help-echo> <help-echo> <help-echo> <help-echo> <help-echo> 
<help-echo> <help-echo> <menu-bar> <help-menu> <re
port-emacs-bug>

Recent messages:
("emacs" "/home/andrewg/.maildelivery")
Loading cc-mode...done
Loading /usr/local/share/emacs/site-lisp/gosmacs.el (source)...done
Loading mwheel...done
Loading font-lock...done
For information about the GNU Project and its goals, type <f1> C-p.
Blink-Cursor mode disabled
Loading emacsbug...done