Comment 5 for bug 718339

>>>>> "John" == John Stoffel <email address hidden> writes:

>>>>> "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.

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

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

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

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

More information. The gnome-terminal does NOT exbhibit this bug. But
uxterm, based on XTerm(268) does show the bug. Hmm... I just
installed a whole bunch and did some simple tests.

   Terminal Emulator Status
   ----------------- --------
   eterm ok
   evilvte bad, can't size down, only up.
   gnome-terminal ok
   guake ok
   konsole ok
   kterm bad
   kxterm ok, wierd
   lxterminal ok
   mlterm ok
   mrxvt ok
   mrxvt-full ok
   rxvt bad
   tilda non-resizeable
   uxterm bad
   wterm bad
   xiterm bad

So I'd almost say it's something with the xterm family, maybe Xlib
based?

Let me know if there's more info you need and I'll do my best to get
it to you. I'm happy to apply patches or updates to the system too.
I'll be pulling daily updates and doing full reboots.

THanks,
John