Re: Update Display Problem

[Andreas Höschler]

Hi Richard,

> > > Is the problem with both the art and xlib backends?
> > > Is it with both GSX11HandlesWindowDecorations user default set to 1 
> > > and 0 ?
> > > Is it with both XWindowBufferUseXShm user default set to 1 and 0?
> > >
> > > Checking those variations could localise the problem.
> >
> > and
> >
> >         defaults write NSGlobalDomain XWindowBufferUseXShm 0
> >
> > indeed solved this problem. Live is great!!!
>
> Well that might means the problem is due to a bug I presumably either 
> introduced or exposed when fixing various problems with coordinate 
> conversion recently (see bug #17717).  Though possibly it's a sharted 
> memory probem entirely separate to that.
>
> The problem with fixing #17717 is that I'm utterly unable to reproduce 
> the problem on my system ... so if someone out there can reliably 
> reproduce it, I would be very grateful if they could at least pin down 
> the exact svn revision it started occurring at ... that would narrow 
> down the search a bit.

No, this display update problem is pretty old. We have it on our list 
since we started using Sun Rays (at least a year ago).

Regards,

  Andreas