Re: The wxt terminal with compiz under Linux

[Michael M. <mur...@gm...>]

2008/7/30 Ethan Merritt <merritt@u.washington.edu>:
> On Wednesday 30 July 2008 04:16:37 Michael Murphy wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> When I am using the wxt terminal together with the Compiz window manager under
>> Ubuntu Linux, whenever the display refreshes (or even in the case of 3d plots
>> when I do a rotation) the window jumps about 20 pixels down and to the right.
>
> This is being tracked as bug #2025914  on gnuplot's SourceForge site.
>
> A similar problem was reported earlier for fvwm (bug #1575751),
> so it is likely that compiz is not the problem.   In that earlier case the
> problem was fixed by upgrading from  wxWidgets 2.6.3 to something newer
> (current wxWidgets version is 2.8.4).   So try that first.

I updated wxWidgets and this indeed fixed the problem.

>> Obviously, in the case of visualising 3dplots, this is rather inconvenient.
>>
>> Any ideas? (Apart from disabling compiz, that is...)
>
> Does disabling compiz fix it?   That would contradict my hypothesis above.

Disabling compiz does fix it, but perhaps it's just a peculiarity of
the metacity window manager (which is the default).

Michael.

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