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From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: Eric Abrahamsen <eric@ericabrahamsen.net>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Text garbling
Date: Tue, 24 Mar 2020 05:30:10 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <838sjqbfb1.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87lfnqlesy.fsf@ericabrahamsen.net> (message from Eric Abrahamsen on Mon, 23 Mar 2020 18:30:53 -0700)

> From: Eric Abrahamsen <eric@ericabrahamsen.net>
> Date: Mon, 23 Mar 2020 18:30:53 -0700
> 
> Look at the exciting thing that happened to my Emacs this afternoon! A
> few letters were switched out for other letters, and most numbers went
> "off". This happened as I set off a list-package upgrade, switched away
> to a different program, and then switched back.
> 
> https://ericabrahamsen.net/garbled.jpg
> 
> In that screenshot I'd done "C-u C-x =" on a capital "R", which was
> displaying as a capital "P".
> 
> I'm running Emacs master on Arch linux, using the Wayland protocol with
> the sway window manager.
> 
> Everything seemed to work fine (including input), just text displayed
> wrong.
> 
> It went away after a restart. I guess I'd be surprised if the problem
> came back, and I'm not really expecting any bug hunting here. But I
> thought it might be useful to log what happened. Happy to provide any
> other information of interest.

My bet is on some "optimization" feature of your video driver that is
buggy.  Upgrading or downgrading that driver might help.



  reply	other threads:[~2020-03-24  3:30 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-03-24  1:30 Text garbling Eric Abrahamsen
2020-03-24  3:30 ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2020-03-24  4:35   ` Eric Abrahamsen

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