Re: Shredded X11 coordinate text bug

[Dave D. <dde...@es...>]

Harald Harders <h.h...@tu...> writes:

> On Mon, 13 Sep 2004, Hans-Bernhard Broeker wrote:
>
>> On Mon, 13 Sep 2004, Daniel J Sebald wrote:
>>
>> > I believe I can duplicate the shredded coordinate text now.  (Finally!!)
>> [...]
>
> I have got the same problem. I am using the window manager icewm under
> Linux. In many cases, the x11 windows starts at a position that the
> coordinates are hidden behind the start menu. If I than move up the
> gnuplot-x11 window, the numbers get shredded. It seems that it is the same
> problem which Hans-Bernhard has described. Shouldn't the numbers be
> reprinted without xor at least at every raise of and every click on the
> window?
>

Should be able to ask the XServer to send expose events when bits of
window become visible after being hidden. That would be a more
reliable indicator.

(If the X server uses backing store, it may not bother sending them,
since no screen contents are lost)


dd
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