GNU bug report logs - #42406
Mouse-wheel scrolling can be flickering

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Message #201 received at 42406 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
To: martin rudalics <rudalics <at> gmx.at>
Cc: alan <at> idiocy.org, konrad.podczeck <at> univie.ac.at, 42406 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#42406: Mouse-wheel scrolling can be flickering
Date: Thu, 17 Dec 2020 18:49:50 +0200

> Cc: konrad.podczeck <at> univie.ac.at, alan <at> idiocy.org, 42406 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
> From: martin rudalics <rudalics <at> gmx.at>
> Date: Thu, 17 Dec 2020 16:13:37 +0100
> 
>  > As I said previously, patches are welcome to make the decision of what
>  > exactly needs to be redrawn more fine-grained than the current "either
>  > just the selected window or all the windows on all the frames" method.
> 
> We talk here about a workaround Konrad would use in his personal builds
> to avoid that scrolling a window slows down his system until something
> better is available.  Or what would you do in his place?

In one's personal build one could use whatever one likes.  I only care
to make it clear that this is not a solution we can adopt for Emacs in
general.

(FWIW, I don't see on my system any slowdown with 5 frames, like
Konrad does.  So this could very well be NS-specific.)

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