Subject: bug#32032: 26.1; Emacs 26 opens under X with blank window

From: [email-masked]
Date: Wed, 04 Jul 2018 08:57:55 +1000

On Wed, 4 Jul 2018, at 4:53 AM, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> > From: Robert Pluim <[email-masked]>
> > Cc: Eli Zaretskii <[email-masked]>,  [email-masked]
> > Date: Tue, 03 Jul 2018 11:20:15 +0200
> >
> > >> Try disabling double-buffering (etc/NEWS describes how to do
> > >> that).> > >
> > > Thanks Eli. That works. :-)
> > > 
> > > Any way to *build* Emacs so that  it disables by default double-
> > > buffering?> >
> > It doesnʼt look that way, if configure finds the Xdbe
> > extension Emacs> > uses it. You could add
> >
> > '(inhibit-double-buffering . t)
> >
> > to default-frame-alist, or uninstall the Xdbe.h header.
>
> Given that there are known bugs with this feature that no one is
> working on, perhaps we should introduce an optional configure switch
> to build without double-buffering.

Agreed. Does it make sense for a Emacs source code newbie to chip in
here?