From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Chong Yidong Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: xterm.c (x_clear_frame) - commented out call to XClearWindow Date: Wed, 23 Nov 2011 14:09:27 +0800 Message-ID: <8739dfid48.fsf@gnu.org> References: <87k46uukcl.fsf@gnu.org> <87d3cldffb.fsf@gnu.org> <391CC3E1-BEF3-4561-8902-8BEE63CDEAE7@swipnet.se> <87wras4taz.fsf@gnu.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1322028586 28378 80.91.229.12 (23 Nov 2011 06:09:46 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 23 Nov 2011 06:09:46 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Geoff Gole , Emacs development discussions To: Jan =?utf-8?Q?Dj=C3=A4rv?= Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Nov 23 07:09:42 2011 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([140.186.70.17]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1RT61e-0004O3-6a for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 23 Nov 2011 07:09:42 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:39268 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1RT61d-0004bz-KC for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 23 Nov 2011 01:09:41 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([140.186.70.92]:35647) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1RT61a-0004bo-BJ for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 23 Nov 2011 01:09:39 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1RT61Y-0004Ra-SW for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 23 Nov 2011 01:09:38 -0500 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([140.186.70.10]:40912) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1RT61Y-0004RW-N1 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 23 Nov 2011 01:09:36 -0500 Original-Received: from [155.69.19.127] (port=50849 helo=furball) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtpsa (TLS1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA1:16) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1RT61X-0007Kb-KY; Wed, 23 Nov 2011 01:09:36 -0500 In-Reply-To: ("Jan \=\?utf-8\?Q\?Dj\=C3\=A4rv\=22's\?\= message of "Tue, 22 Nov 2011 07:41:51 +0100") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.0.91 (gnu/linux) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 3) X-Received-From: 140.186.70.10 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:146171 Archived-At: Jan Dj=C3=A4rv writes: > It would be nice if we could just fix ther leftover spaces. But I > think it is too long in to pretest to fix this. You have to first > find all leftover spaces (i.e. under/between scroll bars, minibuffer, > fringe) in all cases (font size not a multiple of frame size, > fullscreen, and so on) and in all configurations (lucid, Gtk, just X, > motif, with or without native scrollbars, with or without Xaw3d > scrollbars). AFAICT, we know where the extra spaces are: they're to the right of the scroll bar, below the echo area, and to the right of the echo area. It shouldn't be difficult to clear precisely these three areas. > And then for different environments, some redraw errors only appears > with XFCE, some with Gnome-shell. Any idea why? I don't understand why the redisplay engine should behave differently on different desktop environments. If so, surely we'll have bigger problems than merely unpainted frame areas.