Comment 4 for bug 718339

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l8gravely (john-stoffel) wrote : [Bug 718339] Re: resizing xterm larger causes corruption onscreen and in terminal

>>>>> "l8gravely" == l8gravely <email address hidden> writes:

>>>>> "Dave" == Dave Gilbert <email address hidden> writes:
Dave> This seems mostly OK for me on both of my machines (one Intel
Dave> 945GM, and the other is Radeon HD4350 with open drivers).

l8gravely> My system is running a Radeon X1650 (RV530) fanless. I'm
l8gravely> running compiz as the window manager, I'll drop that and
l8gravely> change back to metacity as a test.

Ok, it looks like the problem is some interaction with compiz. Now
that I've switched back to metacity (did: apt-get purge compiz
compiz-gnome) I don't see the corruption that I did before.

But I do see annoying flashes when I resize the xterm.

And another note, when running with the compiz window manager, if I
re-sized the xterm, I would lose the ability to grab the lower right
corner of the window, at least until I resize it using the LEFT and
TOP sides of the window back to the original size. This was because I
re-sized down and to the right using the lower right hand corner grab
area to re-size.

Very strange, but obviously something wrong with either compiz, DRM,
Radeon driver(s), X, etc. So it's probably NOT an xterm bug. But
I'll re-install compiz, re-enable it and see if it happens with other
terminals or windows when I re-size them.

Thanks,
John