Re: Scroll/Redraw problems when running in VMware Fusion

[Andreas Höschler]

Hi Fred,

> > > 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.

Actually I never used cairo yet, but I had the same - or at least it 
seemed so - problem with art in conjunction with Sun Ray Server 
software. This problem could be worked around with the default setting.

Regards,

  Andreas