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#18757
24.4; Intermittent screen flicker since upgrading to OS X 10.10
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Reported by: Emanuel Evans <emanuel.evans <at> gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 17 Oct 2014 22:53:02 UTC
Severity: normal
Found in version 24.4
Done: "Jan D." <jan.h.d <at> swipnet.se>
Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.
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Message #11 received at 18757 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):
> From: Emanuel Evans <emanuel.evans <at> gmail.com>
> Date: Fri, 17 Oct 2014 16:33:26 -0700
>
> Emanuel Evans <emanuel.evans <at> gmail.com> writes:
>
> > Since upgrading to OS X 10.10 (Yosemite), I have been been experiencing
> > intermittent screen flickering problems with Cocoa Emacs 24.4
> > pre-test/RC1 (the issue did not occur in OS X 10.9 to my knowledge). In
> > general, the screen flickers in the top middle portion when switching
> > between windows or when switching buffers in a window (a video of the
> > issue can be found at
> > https://www.dropbox.com/s/9orcw95yru4p7jy/emacs-bug.mov?dl=0 ). I was
> > able to reproduce using emacs -Q in a cocoa window; I don't have exact
> > reproduction steps, since the bug seems quite non-deterministic, but
> > with a combination of screen splitting, switching to full screen
> > (although it is visible in non-full-screen mode as well), filling a
> > buffer with text (to make the flicker more visible), and switching
> > windows, the flicker becomes apparent.
> >
>
> Quick follow-up: this bug does *not* appear in Emacs 24.3 on OS X 10.10.
Once the flicker starts, does it stop on its own, or does it continue
indefinitely?
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