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bug#21658: 24.5; Scrolling garbles text with third monitor enabled
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Stefan Kangas |
Subject: |
bug#21658: 24.5; Scrolling garbles text with third monitor enabled |
Date: |
Sun, 29 Sep 2019 23:58:38 +0200 |
Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:
>> Date: Fri, 9 Oct 2015 18:31:14 -0000 (GMT)
>> From: me@alandmoore.com
>>
>> When I scroll a buffer with the mouse in GTK3, GTK2, or lucid emacs, the
>> buffer does not properly redraw, causing garbled text. With the mouse
>> scroll, it usually appears like the text is not moving (even though the
>> point is actually moving). If I scroll with keyboard controls, the
>> buffer partially redraws, usually in a ~32 character square with the
>> point at the upper left. The screen will redraw correctly if (1) Emacs
>> loses focus or (2) I recenter the buffer with C-l.
>>
>> This only happens when my third monitor is enabled, however. On my
>> system, I have two monitors attached to the onboard Intel GPU, and one
>> additional attached to an AMD GPU card. It makes no difference what
>> monitor emacs is on, but enabling the monitor on the AMD GPU causes
>> emacs to behave as described. Disabling the monitor (via xrandr)
>> immediately fixes the problem.
>>
>> I do not observe this problem with any other software on my system, only
>> emacs.
>
> Are the problematic frames/windows displayed on the 3rd monitor?
>
> Do the coordinates of the frames on the 1st and the 2nd monitor change
> when you enable the 3rd monitor?
>
> If the answer to both of these questions is NO, then I cannot see how
> it could be an Emacs problem. It could be some hardware problem or
> perhaps a bug in the underlying X libraries/server. AFAIK, when Emacs
> redraws a window on a monitor, it doesn't inquire the system about the
> monitors, the only thing it cares about is pixel coordinates of
> windows and frames.
More information was requested but none given within close to 4 years.
It will therefore be hard to make any progress here, and I'm closing
this bug report. If this is still an issue, please reopen the bug.
Best regards,
Stefan Kangas
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