A very short followup: Today the same (apparently) problem started to appear in another program, open office calc (which I use sparinlgly to communicate with windows types). Same symproms as with emacs, but a little less annoying. \Might this be a gnome problem? Kjetil On Tue, Jun 1, 2010 at 20:01, Kjetil brinchmann Halvorsen < kjetil1001@gmail.com> wrote: > Comments/answers below: > > On Sat, May 15, 2010 at 06:47, Jan Djärv wrote: > >> Hello. >> >> Please keep the Cc to debbugs.gnu.org. >> >> 2010-05-15 01:12, Kjetil brinchmann Halvorsen skrev: >> >> Hei! >>> >>> I just downloaded and compiled the sources for emacs23.2 I did not >>> install, but did run it from the >>> build directory. the same problem appeared. That is, when I first saw >>> the emacs window appear, it looked >>> clean and normal, but moving the mouse cursor over the screen, the >>> problem appeared. >>> >>> I do not understand what you refer to by "switching themes". >>> >> >> In your settings menu you can choose appearence of the desktop. >> Does this happen if you start emacs with -Q? >> > > It do happens when I start with -Q, yes. > >> >> There seems to be some mismatch. The screen shot says 23.1.50 and Gtk+ >> 2.18.0. But in your bug details below, it says 23.1 and Gtk+ 2.20.0. >> > > The reason is that the screenshot is from another computer with the same > problem. > > >> I tried reproducing this with Ubuntu 10.04, but could not. >> > > It does not happen always. I said it is difficult to state exactly > under which circumstances it happens, > and I refuted some of my hypothesis. But one thing is commom to all > the occurences: It do not show the problem if I run > emacs as my only program. It do show when I run many other > processes. In practice this are mainly firefox > (with many (20 or more) open tabs), and Evince, the gnome document viewer, > also often many windows open. Most other programs I run within emacs. > > Kjetil > >> >> Jan D. >> >> >> >>> In GNU Emacs 23.1.1 (i486-pc-linux-gnu, GTK+ Version 2.20.0) >>> of 2010-03-29 on rothera, modified by Debian >>> Windowing system distributor `The X.Org Foundation', version >>> 11.0.10706000 >>> configured using `configure '--build=i486-linux-gnu' >>> '--host=i486-linux-gnu' '--prefix=/usr' >>> '--sharedstatedir=/var/lib' >>> '--libexecdir=/usr/lib' '--localstatedir=/var/lib' >>> '--infodir=/usr/share/info' '--mandir=/usr/share/man' >>> '--with-pop=yes' >>> >>> '--enable-locallisppath=/etc/emacs23:/etc/emacs:/usr/local/share/emacs/23.1/site-lisp:/usr/local/share/emacs/site-lisp:/usr/share/emacs/23.1/site-lisp:/usr/share/emacs/site-lisp:/usr/share/emacs/23.1/leim' >>> '--with-x=yes' '--with-x-toolkit=gtk' '--with-toolkit-scroll-bars' >>> 'build_alias=i486-linux-gnu' 'host_alias=i486-linux-gnu' >>> 'CFLAGS=-DDEBIAN -g -O2' 'LDFLAGS=-g' 'CPPFLAGS='' >>> >>> Important settings: >>> value of $LC_ALL: nil >>> value of $LC_COLLATE: nil >>> value of $LC_CTYPE: nil >>> value of $LC_MESSAGES: nil >>> value of $LC_MONETARY: nil >>> value of $LC_NUMERIC: nil >>> value of $LC_TIME: nil >>> value of $LANG: en_US.utf8 >>> value of $XMODIFIERS: nil >>> locale-coding-system: utf-8-unix >>> default-enable-multibyte-characters: t >>> >>> Major mode: Fundamental >>> >>> Minor modes in effect: >>> show-paren-mode: t >>> global-auto-revert-mode: t >>> display-time-mode: t >>> display-battery-mode: t >>> cua-mode: t >>> shell-dirtrack-mode: t >>> tooltip-mode: t >>> tool-bar-mode: t >>> mouse-wheel-mode: t >>> menu-bar-mode: t >>> file-name-shadow-mode: t >>> global-font-lock-mode: t >>> blink-cursor-mode: t >>> global-auto-composition-mode: t >>> auto-encryption-mode: t >>> auto-compression-mode: t >>> line-number-mode: t >>> transient-mark-mode: t >>> >>> Recent input: >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> M-x r e p o r t >>> - e m a c s - b u g >>> >>> Recent messages: >>> Loading /etc/emacs/site-start.d/50pspp.el (source)...done >>> Loading /etc/emacs/site-start.d/50psvn.el (source)...done >>> Loading /etc/emacs/site-start.d/50python-docutils.el >>> (source)...done >>> enabling speedbar support >>> Loading cua-base...done >>> Loading battery...done >>> Loading time...done >>> Loading autorevert...done >>> Loading paren...done >>> For information about GNU Emacs and the GNU system, type C-h C-a. >>> >>> >>> -- >>> The good Christian should beware of mathematicians, and all >>> those who >>> make empty prophecies. The danger already exists that the >>> mathematicians >>> have made a covenant with the devil to darken the spirit and to >>> confine >>> man in the bonds of Hell. >>> >>> St. Augustine, De Genesi ad Litteram, Book II, xviii, 37 >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> -- >>> The good Christian should beware of mathematicians, and all those who >>> make empty prophecies. The danger already exists that the mathematicians >>> have made a covenant with the devil to darken the spirit and to confine >>> man in the bonds of Hell. >>> >>> St. Augustine, De Genesi ad Litteram, Book II, xviii, 37 >>> >>> >>> >>> >> > > > -- > The good Christian should beware of mathematicians, and all those who make > empty prophecies. The danger already exists that the mathematicians have > made a covenant with the devil to darken the spirit and to confine man in > the bonds of Hell. > > St. Augustine, De Genesi ad Litteram, Book II, xviii, 37 > > > > -- The good Christian should beware of mathematicians, and all those who make empty prophecies. The danger already exists that the mathematicians have made a covenant with the devil to darken the spirit and to confine man in the bonds of Hell. St. Augustine, De Genesi ad Litteram, Book II, xviii, 37