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.
next prev parent 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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