GNU bug report logs - #61667
29.0.60; Failure to redisplay

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: Dmitry Gutov <dgutov <at> yandex.ru>

Date: Tue, 21 Feb 2023 02:55:01 UTC

Severity: normal

Found in version 29.0.60

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Message #455 received at 61667 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Po Lu <luangruo <at> yahoo.com>
To: Dmitry Gutov <dgutov <at> yandex.ru>
Cc: 61667 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>, gregory <at> heytings.org
Subject: Re: bug#61667: 29.0.60; Failure to redisplay
Date: Sat, 04 Mar 2023 08:01:20 +0800
Dmitry Gutov <dgutov <at> yandex.ru> writes:

> On 02/03/2023 09:11, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
>>> From: Po Lu<luangruo <at> yahoo.com>
>>> Cc:61667 <at> debbugs.gnu.org,  Gregory Heytings<gregory <at> heytings.org>,  Eli
>>>   Zaretskii<eliz <at> gnu.org>
>>> Date: Thu, 02 Mar 2023 12:11:38 +0800
>>>
>>> Yes.  It sure sounds like a bug in the GNOME compositor now.
>>> Have you tried disabling GNOME Shell extensions one by one?  Maybe one
>>> of them is responsible for this.
>> Whether or not we find some workarounds, I think we should add an
>> entry to PROBLEMS about this.
>
> Speaking of disabling double buffering as a workaround: I went back to
> my old bug reports related to flickering, which double-buffering aimed
> to fix.
>
> I recompiled the GTK3 build without xdbe -- and still couldn't
> reproduce neither bug#12363 (which was admittedly filed on a Windows
> system), nor bug#16621. Even with the same font (Fira Code).
>
> Not sure what changed -- maybe better screen resolution, or a faster
> machine. And the DE, libraries' versions, etc.
>
> But there is a persistent glitch: when the window configuration
> changes, 1 or 2 vertical bars often flash:
>
> https://a.uguu.se/iYTlOftH.mp4 (with emacs -Q)
>
> https://a.uguu.se/YdDWpMid.mp4 (with my config but with tool-bar and
> scroll-bar modes enabled)
>
> scroll-bar-mode on seems to be required to reproduce this.

This is expected: moving the scroll bar causes exposures, which can
cause flickering.  That's the problem double buffering is supposed to
fix.




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