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.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-03-24 3:30 UTC|newest]
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2020-03-24 1:30 Text garbling Eric Abrahamsen
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2020-03-24 4:35 ` Eric Abrahamsen
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