Emacs window corruption with compositing problems should be fixed [LWN.net]

Emacs window corruption with compositing problems should be fixed

Posted Mar 15, 2011 19:15 UTC (Tue) by jejb (subscriber, #6654)
Parent article: The Grumpy Editor's GNOME 3 experience

it was another intel driver issue

https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=32734

I don't think the fix is in many distros yet, though

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Emacs window corruption with compositing problems should be fixed

Posted Mar 15, 2011 20:38 UTC (Tue) by jjmarin (subscriber, #53201) [Link] (2 responses)

GNOME 3.0 isn't neither in many distros at the moment.

So I think there is a chance that this fix will be dropped in distros on time for GNOME 3.0. Anyway, fixes can be distributed on distros at any time :)

Emacs window corruption with compositing problems should be fixed

Posted Mar 15, 2011 21:01 UTC (Tue) by jejb (subscriber, #6654) [Link] (1 responses)

> GNOME 3.0 isn't neither in many distros at the moment.

> So I think there is a chance that this fix will be dropped in distros onn time for GNOME 3.0. Anyway, fixes can be distributed on distros at any time :)

If you actually read the bug report, you'll see it's not a gnome bug or anything like 3.0 related. It's a compositing bug in one of the released intel drivers. It manifests on Jon's test because he picked it up from rawhide.

Emacs window corruption with compositing problems should be fixed

Posted Mar 16, 2011 7:45 UTC (Wed) by jjmarin (subscriber, #53201) [Link]

>If you actually read the bug report, you'll see it's not a gnome bug or
>anything like 3.0 related. It's a compositing bug in one of the released
>intel drivers. It manifests on Jon's test because he picked it up from
>rawhide.

Because you mention this bug in this context, I only wanted to note that the fix for this particular bug in a intel driver could reach the distros (included Fedora) when GNOME 3.0 is released.