Re: No redraw with wxt and 'noraise'

[Ethan M. <merritt@u.washington.edu>]

On Monday 28 January 2008 17:34, Philipp K. Janert wrote:
> I wonder whether anybody has seen this before?
> Is this at all dependent on the window manager?
> (I use IceWM.)

I cannot reproduce this behavior here, neither under KDE
nor under IceWM.

    icewm-light-1.2.26-5mdv2007.0

> There is an interesting issue with the wxt terminal
> (on Linux, at least):
> 
> When I set up my terminal with the 'noraise' flag:
> 
> 	set t wxt noraise
> 
> Then the window is not raised after a plot command,
> instead the focus stays with the console window (so
> far, all is according to spec).
> 
> However, the window also does not receive a redraw
> event so that the old plot continues to be shown.
> The window is only redrawn (with the new plot) after 
> the mouse pointer enters the wxt window (or the
> window is raised).
> 
> My guess is that wxt does not generate a redraw
> event until the window system (X11) sends an event
> (souch as MOUSE_IN) to the window.
> 
> This does not seem to be a problem when using
> the old x11 terminal.
> 
> 
> Best,
> 
> 		Ph.
> 
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