Re: Scroll/Redraw problems when running in VMware Fusion

[Fred Kiefer]

Andreas Höschler wrote:
> 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
> 

Did you really get any change in behaviour with that setting? For me it
does not work. Although I would have loved to see a simple way to work
around this cairo scrolling problem.

Cheers,
Fred