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From: Chong Yidong <cyd@gnu.org>
To: "Jan Djärv" <jan.h.d@swipnet.se>
Cc: Geoff Gole <geoffgole@gmail.com>,
	Emacs development discussions <emacs-devel@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: xterm.c (x_clear_frame) - commented out call to XClearWindow
Date: Wed, 23 Nov 2011 14:09:27 +0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <8739dfid48.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <FB1031B5-E1ED-49E2-913A-93EAA540AB0A@swipnet.se> ("Jan \=\?utf-8\?Q\?Dj\=C3\=A4rv\=22's\?\= message of "Tue, 22 Nov 2011 07:41:51 +0100")

Jan Djärv <jan.h.d@swipnet.se> writes:

> It would be nice if we could just fix ther leftover spaces.  But I
> think it is too long in to pretest to fix this.  You have to first
> find all leftover spaces (i.e. under/between scroll bars, minibuffer,
> fringe) in all cases (font size not a multiple of frame size,
> fullscreen, and so on) and in all configurations (lucid, Gtk, just X,
> motif, with or without native scrollbars, with or without Xaw3d
> scrollbars).

AFAICT, we know where the extra spaces are: they're to the right of the
scroll bar, below the echo area, and to the right of the echo area.  It
shouldn't be difficult to clear precisely these three areas.

> And then for different environments, some redraw errors only appears
> with XFCE, some with Gnome-shell.

Any idea why?  I don't understand why the redisplay engine should behave
differently on different desktop environments.  If so, surely we'll have
bigger problems than merely unpainted frame areas.



  parent reply	other threads:[~2011-11-23  6:09 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-11-19  2:09 xterm.c (x_clear_frame) - commented out call to XClearWindow Geoff Gole
2011-11-21  5:15 ` Chong Yidong
2011-11-21  7:19   ` Geoff Gole
2011-11-21  8:54     ` Chong Yidong
2011-11-21 11:36       ` Geoff Gole
2011-11-21 18:02         ` Jan Djärv
2011-11-22  2:38           ` Geoff Gole
2011-11-22  5:31           ` Chong Yidong
2011-11-22  6:41             ` Jan Djärv
2011-11-22 15:37               ` Stefan Monnier
2011-11-23  6:09               ` Chong Yidong [this message]
2011-11-29 18:13                 ` Jan Djärv

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