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28.1.91; Terminal Emacs Mac OS flickering.

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Message #166 received at 57434 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Dmitrii Kuragin <kuragin <at> google.com>
To: Gerd Möllmann <gerd.moellmann <at> gmail.com>
Cc: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>, 57434 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#57434: 28.1.91; Terminal Emacs Mac OS flickering.
Date: Wed, 31 Aug 2022 07:12:30 -0700

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On Wed, Aug 31, 2022 at 4:55 AM Gerd Möllmann <gerd.moellmann <at> gmail.com>
wrote:

> Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org> writes:
>
> >> From: Gerd Möllmann <gerd.moellmann <at> gmail.com>
> >> Cc: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>,  57434 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
> >> Date: Wed, 31 Aug 2022 09:02:07 +0200
> >>
> >> "Good news":
> >
> > Indeed.
> >
> >> $TERM seems to be "alacritty" by default, which has different
> >> capabilities than xterm-256color.  But the flickering is also there with
> >> xterm-256color.
> >>
> >> And I double-checked with Terminal.app again: no flickering.
> >
> > When you run with Terminal.app, does the code identified by Dmitrii as
> > responsible for the flickering (in scroll.c) get executed?
>
> I haven't checked yet.  But...
>
> Dmitrii, could you please check if something changes when you set
> baud-rate?  I can't see flickering in alacritty, when I
>
> (setq baud-rate 1000000)
>

I do not know what it does, but it does help.

I mean, it fixes the problem with flickering completely.

Could you please elaborate a bit more about possible consequences of that?


> but it's kind of hard to reproduce anyway for me.
>


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