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From: Dmitry Gutov <dgutov@yandex.ru>
To: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: RFC: flicker-free double-buffered Emacs under X11
Date: Tue, 1 Nov 2016 02:03:53 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <d56aa0dc-c21b-4ca2-40d2-37a1dd7d8a6d@yandex.ru> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <jwvmvholiqw.fsf-monnier+gmane.emacs.devel@gnu.org>

On 28.10.2016 16:14, Stefan Monnier wrote:
>> I get a lot of flickering myself on Linux Mint with Gtk; often in font-lock
>> heavy buffers or while M-x compile is running.  This patch solves all of
>> it :)
>
> I also welcome this patch, of course, but for the record, such
> flickering should be solved by getting rid of those extra "spurious"
> updates, rather than by hiding them behind double buffering.

Spurious updates or not, according to a previous discussion, there's no 
reliable way to avoid flickers other than double-buffering:

https://debbugs.gnu.org/cgi/bugreport.cgi?bug=16621#38

Even if we could optimize them out in some cases. As such, I very much 
welcome this patch as well.



  reply	other threads:[~2016-11-01  0:03 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 31+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-10-21  1:32 RFC: flicker-free double-buffered Emacs under X11 Daniel Colascione
2016-10-21  2:27 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2016-10-21  2:31   ` Daniel Colascione
2016-10-21  3:24 ` Óscar Fuentes
2016-10-21  3:31   ` Clément Pit--Claudel
2016-10-21  3:41     ` Óscar Fuentes
2016-10-21  3:50       ` Clément Pit--Claudel
2016-10-21  8:23     ` Andreas Schwab
2016-10-21  8:25       ` Andreas Schwab
2016-10-21  3:56 ` Clément Pit--Claudel
2016-10-21  8:49 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-10-21 11:04   ` Daniel Colascione
2016-10-21 17:43     ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-10-21 18:27       ` Daniel Colascione
2016-10-21 19:27         ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-10-23 20:51           ` Daniel Colascione
2016-10-24  8:05             ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-10-24 18:43               ` Ken Raeburn
2016-10-27 19:06               ` dancol
2016-10-27 19:36                 ` Eli Zaretskii
     [not found]                   ` <db81befd-7a72-58d9-b7a8-107df89bcab3@dancol.org>
2016-10-27 19:56                     ` Daniel Colascione
2016-10-28  6:31                       ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-10-27 22:18                 ` Paul Eggert
2016-10-27 22:46                   ` Clément Pit--Claudel
2016-10-28 13:14                     ` Stefan Monnier
2016-11-01  0:03                       ` Dmitry Gutov [this message]
2016-10-27 23:10                   ` Daniel Colascione
2016-10-28  2:07                     ` Paul Eggert
2016-10-28  7:19                       ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-11-06  3:51                         ` Paul Eggert
2016-11-06 15:46                           ` Eli Zaretskii

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