#147 Odd character display/missing issue

[Nigel Reed]

I was responding to an email I sent myself. I left the syncterm window to check the spelling of a word. When I returned and started typing I got this:

https://pasteboard.co/qkWyGdGdXZil.png

I covered the window then uncovered and the text was properly displaying. I continued to type the text and, at some point, it disappeared as I was typing and then reappeared again.

https://pasteboard.co/0cOpz3jOJ9XC.png

I'm running syncterm from an Ubuntu linux system to my Windows 10 desktop via vcxsrc.

[Stephen James Hurd]

So after some digging around, I'm now convinced that SyncTERM in X11 mode itself can't behave as shown in the screenshots, so I assume it's some interaction between SyncTERM and vcxrc, or a straight up vcxrc issue. I'm not really sure what WM it uses, or how it's mapping the Windows WM_PAINT/GetUpdateRect() status to X11 GraphicsExpose/Expose events, but this is where I would expect the issue to show up.

I'll try to reproduce this, but for now at least, I'm not going to block the release over it. If I can get an easy reproduction case, I'll absolutely try to fix it for the 1.2 release though.

[Stephen James Hurd]

Could you retest this with the current git build? This may have been fixed with the recent support for root window fallback.

[Stephen James Hurd]

Confirmed fixed via IRC.