Re: Wily display

  • From: Bill Meahan <wmeahan@xxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: wilyfans@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Fri, 10 May 2002 12:15:34 -0400

On Fri, 10 May 2002 16:43:56 +0100
spam@xxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:

> 
> > > freebsd but i don't recall the version of xfree86. i have not seen
> > > the problem on most platforms i use wily on (many of them sparcs
> > > with solaris, netbsd etc) and the latest freebsd/xfree86 seems ok
> > > too. have not checked linux.
> 
> I have just noticed a further redrawing problem with wily and
> this setup (xfree4 and linux): , if a pane within wily is partly
> obscured and you scroll UP by a few lines, then the text that was
> obscured and is now visible is not drawn. 
> 
> ian

Data point: My Debian GNU/Linux 3.0 system with XFree86 4.1 and the deb
package for wily does NOT exhibit any form of redraw problem or
slowness.

I doubt if it is XFree 4.x per se. More likely a combination of things.

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