On Wed, 4 Jul 2018, at 4:53 AM, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> > From: Robert Pluim <rpluim@gmail.com>
> > Cc: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>,  32032@debbugs.gnu.org
> > Date: Tue, 03 Jul 2018 11:20:15 +0200
> >
> > >> Try disabling double-buffering (etc/NEWS describes how to do
> > >> that).> > >
> > > Thanks Eli. That works. :-)
> > > 
> > > Any way to *build* Emacs so that  it disables by default double-
> > > buffering?> >
> > It doesnʼt look that way, if configure finds the Xdbe
> > extension Emacs> > uses it. You could add
> >
> > '(inhibit-double-buffering . t)
> >
> > to default-frame-alist, or uninstall the Xdbe.h header.
>
> Given that there are known bugs with this feature that no one is
> working on, perhaps we should introduce an optional configure switch
> to build without double-buffering.

Agreed. Does it make sense for a Emacs source code newbie to chip in
here?