Re: Flicker in 1.8.0

[war <war@starband.net>]

Not sure what he's talking about.
However, I also get flicker as well, 1.8.0 + 1.8.1.
Just chatting, I see flicker.


Peter Zelezny wrote:

> On Sat, 14 Jul 2001 16:33:09 +0200
> Richard Fuchs <dfx@gmx.at> wrote:
>
> > I'm not sure if this is the same thing I've been seeing... When
> switching
> > tabs (doesn't matter how, mouse or keyboard), sometimes it takes about
> half
> > a second to switch tabs, and during this time I'm not seeing an xtext
> > widget, but instead I can see the grayish background of the
> > tab widget. Usually I can always see a black xtext widget, even when it
> > takes a while to switch tabs (due to high system load or so). To fix
> this, I
> > need to move something over the xtext area (like xmms), then everything
> is
> > back to normal. This starts happening only sometimes after switching
> > windowmaker workspaces.
> >
> > Richard
>
> I guess what you're seeing is a side effect of xtext's expose event
> buffering. The problem is, everytime you switch a tab, xtext gets a draw
> and expose event, so it ends up drawing itself twice. To get around it,
> there's some very simple buffering of the events, try this patch which
> disable that. Of course, with this patch applied, it'll draw itself twice
> when switch tabs again :(
>
> --
> Peter Zelezny. <zed@linux.com>
>
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