New bugs in updates

Adam Williamson awilliam at redhat.com
Fri Sep 9 21:24:29 UTC 2011


On Fri, 2011-09-09 at 19:39 +0200, Michael Schwendt wrote:
> On Fri, 09 Sep 2011 09:37:03 -0700, AW (Adam) wrote:
> 
> > > 5) Haven't had any display corruption recently, but slowness as well
> > > as
> > > missing/delayed refreshes are still there. Typing this mail in Emacs
> > > leaves copies of the cursor block above characters until a delayed
> > > refresh clears them up from time to time. 
> > 
> > That one really *does* sound like
> > https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=720605 , which I
> > mis-identified as being Mike Chambers' issue. Can you check the report
> > and try the workaround?
> 
> First very brief check:
> 
> Under the assumption that it's an environment variable, I've added it to
> ~/.bash_profile without reading all of the ticket. Voila! That has fixed
> the most obvious missing refreshes indeed.  Not sure it's 100%, though. 
> After I had exited Emacs as the custom editor in Claws Mail, a few seconds
> later the Emacs window reappeared on the screen for fractions of a
> second. Not normal behaviour.

> xterm+mc slowness is still there. Also when running JWM (package "jwm")
> instead of GNOME Shell. Test-case: Run "xterm -e mc", then enlargen the
> window. Lots of flickering while it takes seconds to redraw the contents
> again and again. Not reproducible with gnome-terminal.

The slowness is a separate issue.
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