This bug is related to the mode-line erasure problem I mentioned in http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2015-01/msg01040.html . To reproduce the problem by the instruction below, you would need to make sure that your X11 compositing manager is turned off. I tested on Cent OS 5.11, default setting. See also http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2013-04/msg00600.html . Steps to reproduce: 1. Create a file (say, ~/test.el) containing the following contents: (custom-set-faces '(mode-line ((((class color) (min-colors 88)) (:background "grey75" :foreground "black" :box (:line-width 2 :color "grey75" :style released-button))))) ) 2. $ emacs -Q -D -l ~/test.el 3. C-x 2 C-x 2 C-x 2 4. C-x o C-x o C-x o 5. Move another window (e.g., the terminal window from which Emacs is invoked) so that it hovers over the Emacs frame. Result: The upper two mode-lines among four are not redrawn after their hidden part is revealed (see the attachment). They are not redrawn in response to expose events because the flag `enabled_p' for these mode-line glyph rows have been set to false. YAMAMOTO Mitsuharu mituharu@math.s.chiba-u.ac.jp In GNU Emacs 25.0.50.1 (i686-pc-linux-gnu, GTK+ Version 2.10.4) of 2015-01-29 on localhost.localdomain Windowing system distributor `The X.Org Foundation', version 11.0.70101000 System Description: CentOS release 5.11 (Final) Configured features: XPM JPEG TIFF GIF PNG SOUND LIBSELINUX FREETYPE XFT ZLIB