Eli Zaretskii writes: Hi Eli, > Please apply the patch below and run with it for a while. It makes > the output of trace-redisplay more voluminous, but I don't see how > else we could catch the problem. When the problem happens again, > please post the results. I have applied the patch, and I have also compiled Emacs trunk with -DGLYPH_DEBUG=1. When the problem happened, I have taken a screenshot, and I have evaluated (dump-glyph-matrix 2) See the appended screenshot.jpg. It is an older email from Lars about the topic (message-id , from "Sat, 05 Jan 2013 09:38:00 +0100"). At the bottom of Emacs, you see 3 lines which are scrambled. Besides the screenshot, I have also appended the dump of Emacs. HTH. > Thanks. Best regards, Michael.