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24.0.92: display bug

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Message #126 received at 10304 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
To: Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>
Cc: 10304 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, schwab <at> linux-m68k.org
Subject: Re: bug#10304: 24.0.92: display bug
Date: Fri, 14 Nov 2014 17:56:07 +0200

> From: Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>
> Cc: 10304 <at> debbugs.gnu.org,  schwab <at> linux-m68k.org
> Date: Fri, 14 Nov 2014 16:45:38 +0100
> 
> Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org> writes:
> 
> > I think I do understand.  My suspicion is that we somehow fail to
> > realize that the screen estate formerly occupied by the image, and
> > everything that follows it, needs to be cleared in its entirety.  On
> > the display engine level, the image takes just one "line" (called
> > "glyph row"), and perhaps we somehow don't realize that the height of
> > that "line" is large, and all of that needs to be cleared, not just
> > the number of text lines of "normal" height that will replace the
> > image on display.
> 
> Did you get any further on this?

No.

> I've finally found a single message in Gnus where I can reproduce this
> almost 100% of the time -- but only on this display, so it's probably
> closely tied to the exact geometry of the Emacs frame.
> 
> But if you have debugging instructions, since I can now reproduce this,
> I can hopefully give you the output you need to fix this...

Can you run with the patch I posted back then, and report the output,
together with a screenshot of the offending display corruption (so I
could match the debugging output with what was on the screen)?

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