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: Mon, 21 Nov 2011 13:15:38 +0800 Message-ID: <87k46uukcl.fsf@gnu.org> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1321852554 26774 80.91.229.12 (21 Nov 2011 05:15:54 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 21 Nov 2011 05:15:54 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Emacs development discussions To: Geoff Gole Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Nov 21 06:15:50 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 1RSMEQ-0003JY-Kt for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 21 Nov 2011 06:15:50 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:34091 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1RSMEP-0003bM-PG for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 21 Nov 2011 00:15:49 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([140.186.70.92]:38548) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1RSMEN-0003bD-Kk for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 21 Nov 2011 00:15:48 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1RSMEM-0000UI-Jh for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 21 Nov 2011 00:15:47 -0500 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([140.186.70.10]:58537) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1RSMEM-0000UE-IA for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 21 Nov 2011 00:15:46 -0500 Original-Received: from [155.69.17.150] (port=53502 helo=furball) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtpsa (TLS1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA1:16) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1RSMEL-0005CT-MK; Mon, 21 Nov 2011 00:15:46 -0500 In-Reply-To: (Geoff Gole's message of "Sat, 19 Nov 2011 10:09:57 +0800") 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:146105 Archived-At: Geoff Gole writes: > In x_clear_frame in in xterm.c, somebody has commented out a call to > XClearWindow: > > /* The following call is commented out because it does not seem to accomplish > anything, apart from causing flickering during window resize. */ > /* XClearWindow (FRAME_X_DISPLAY (f), FRAME_X_WINDOW (f)); */ > > Unfortunately this results in a strip of pixels at the bottom of the > frame not being updated. You might be able to see it with: > > emacs -Q > M-: (set-background-color "black") I'm afraid I don't see any such strip on latest trunk, GNU Emacs 24.0.91.3 (x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu, GTK+ Version 3.2.0) What system are you reporting this from?