Re: header-line and mode-line leave residue with certain fonts

[Stephen Berman]

On Wed, 25 Feb 2004 16:37:03 +0100 "Jan D." <address@hidden> wrote:

>> - The residues appear only when the scroll bar is on the left.
>
> Not really, I can get then on both sides.
>

I just tried again with the scroll bar on the right, but I don't see
any residue there.  However, when I switched the scroll bar back to
the left, the left margin (between scroll bar and fringe) suddenly
contained numerous dots, which like the residue of the header and mode
lines disappeared when I redisplayed the frame.  Is this the same
basic bug?  (I also see the dots only on the left, not on the right.)

> This is a bad interaction between GTK and X and occur because Emacs
> can't use the GTK event loop and scroll bars need to be double
> buffered to avoid flicker.  It is a GTK only problem.  I have this
> on my todo list (actually been there since GTK first made it into
> Emacs), I'll try to give it more priority.

Thanks!
--Steve Berman