[Fwd: Re: Bug in display]

[Adrian Aichner]

Peter Gordon <peter at pg-consultants.com> writes:

> Hi,
>
> Could someone kindly remove TomF at sjpc.org from the mailing list. (See
> attached mail) 

I have done this for xemacs-beta now.

Best regards!

Adrian

>
> Thanks
>
> Peter
>
> From: Thomas Frayne <TomF at sjpc.org>
> Subject: Re: Bug in display
> To: Peter Gordon <peter at pg-consultants.com>
> Date: Sun, 15 Oct 2006 06:31:10 -0700
> References: <1160642443.2687.7.camel at tigger>
> 	<17713.53656.779981.668627 at calypso.tux.org>
> 	<1160895897.2755.4.camel at tigger>  <1160903776.2755.13.camel at tigger>
> Message-Id: <1160919070.4391.138.camel at linux.site>
>
> Dear Mr. Gordon,
>
> I have been receiving emails like this for the past few weeks.  I
> suspect that this is related to my late husband's interest in Linux.
>
> Unfortunately, Tom passed away a year ago. Can you please remove his
> email address from the project you are working on as well as any related
> mailings on Linux?
>
> He loved working with Linux and felt the world was better for the
> usefulness of Linux.
>
> Keep up the good work.
>
> Tom's wife
>
>
>
>
> On Sun, 2006-10-15 at 11:16 +0200, Peter Gordon wrote:
>> Please have a look at the attachment. I created a small file, and marked
>> the first two lines with the mouse. In the same action, I marked only
>> the first line with the mouse. The result is that the greyed area for
>> the last positions is slightly larger than the rest.
>> 
>> Peter
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> On Sun, 2006-10-15 at 09:05 +0200, Peter Gordon wrote:
>> > Most of the time I, and I would assume most others,  use fixed fonts
>> > with xemacs. So would it be possible to treat fixed fonts as a special
>> > case. As a naive user, the amount that needs to be deleted seems to be
>> > the size of the cursor.
>> > 
>> > Peter
>> > 
>> > On Sun, 2006-10-15 at 02:13 -0400, Stephen J. Turnbull wrote:
>> > > Peter Gordon writes:
>> > > 
>> > >  > ./configure --prefix=/sw/xemacs-21.5.27 --with-xft
>> > >  > --with-xft=emacs,tabs,menubars,gauges --without-debug
>> > >  > --without-error-checking --with-gtk
>> > > 
>> > > --with-xft --with-gtk may be a bad idea.  AFAIK no attempt has been
>> > > made to 
>> > > 
>> > >  > This is a demonstration of a bug which creates unnecessary lines.
>> > > 
>> > > Xft lies about the size of the bounding box.  Naive attempts to avoid
>> > > the lines by "clearing too much" result in other parts of the display
>> > > getting trashed.  I've chosen to leave the lines there as a visible
>> > > reminder of the problem.  But it's equally there in recent updates of
>> > > Mozilla Firefox for X11, they just chose to clear parts of neighboring
>> > > display, which is less blatant but still pretty ugly to my mind.
>> > > 
>> > > Patches which fix the problem correctly or information about how to
>> > > get Xft to tell the truth about the text extent that it is actually
>> > > going to write would be very welcome.
>> > > 
>> > > 
>> > > 
>> > > 
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