On Mon, Jul 21, 2008 at 07:34:29AM +0200, Mehturt wrote:

>>> I have a redraw problem using mrxvt 0.5.3-1 on Ubuntu Hardy. When I
>>> edit text in vim and use Ctrl+E or Ctrl+Y to scroll text up or down,
>>> some pixels are not redrawed, they stay on the same position though
>>> they should disappear. I am attaching a screenshot though I'm not sure
>>> whether it will come thru this maillist. This problem only happens
>>> with mrxvt + vim, in konsole + vim it works fine.
>>
>> Are you using Xft? If yes, this is a problem with some versions of the
>> freetype library. Under some DPI / font size combinations, the size
>> reported by freetype of font glyphs sometimes differs by one pixel from
>> the size actually drawn.
> 
> Yes, using Xft.
> 
>>
>> See if you find the same problem in xterm. Usually, when I have the
>> problem you show, I see the same problem in xterm.
> 
> No, I cannot reproduce it using xterm.
> The command lines for mrxvt and xterm I use are:
> 
> mrxvt -tn xterm -bg black -fg white -sl 2000 +sb -hb -stt -fg green
> -xft -xftaa -xftsz 9 -xftfn "Bitstream Vera Sans Mono"
> xterm -fa "Bitstream Vera Sans Mono" -fs 9 -fg green

Did the same (with -cf /dev/null), and can't reproduce.

>> You should be able to avoid it by upgrading the freetype libraries, and
> 
> Upgrading to what version? I'm currently using libxft2 2.1.12-2ubuntu5.

I'm using libxft-2.1.12 and libfreetype-2.3.6, and don't see the
problem.

See if you can make and upload a kvm/qemu disk image of a minimal system
reproducing this bug.

GI

-- 
BTW, FWIW, IMHO, AFAIK, yes. OTOH, AAMOF, maybe not. YMMV.

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