Re: Scroll/Redraw problems when running in VMware Fusion

[Andreas Höschler]

Hi,

> > Just recently, I have tried to install the latest svn co (as of 
> > yesterday) in a virtualized
> > Debian Etch install.
> >
> > Running the GNUstep-gui based applications, I have noticed that the 
> > various view
> > objects (which allow scrolling) not updating the entire view 
> > contents--causing the
> > views to "smear" text within themselves (e.g. ProjectCenter's 
> > scrollview)
> >
> > I have tried both cairo and art backend to see if it was a 
> > libgnustep-cairo issue,
> > but both had the same results.  Also wondering if my X configuration 
> > was bad,
> > I installed/ran/scrolled the statically compiled Opera 9.21 browser 
> > which did
> > not result in smeared page rendering.
> >
> > Would this be a configuration error on my part? (vmware drivers were 
> > compiled)
>
> This sounds like a known bug with the scrolling in the cairo backend 
> ... are you sure you were using the art backend?  Perhaps you built 
> the art backend but were still using the cairo one?

Try

	/opt/GNUstep/System/Tools/defaults write NSGlobalDomain 
XWindowBufferUseXShm NO

Regards,

  Andreas