On Tue, 30 May 2017 22:42:21 +0200 Jesper Anderson <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Tue, May 30, 2017 at 10:33 PM, Rastislav Barlik > <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > I'm not saying that XTerm's behavior is the correct one. What I'm > > saying though is that the showing garbage in the terminal is not the > > right thing to do. Just look at my screenshot after setting the > > window to 2000 characters and putting it back. > > Sure. That should be fixed. And not avoided by breaking resizing of > the terminal. > > If I ask for a size, I ask for a reason. If the terminal ends up a > completely different size, that is incorrect behaviour. End of story. > It's not up to the terminal to decide that it doesn't want to get > larger than my screen is. That's my call. > > But it also shouldn't break, certainly. > > Are you by any chance using Linux kernel 4.4 and an Intel GPU? If so, > there is a bug with SNA acceleration which causes that exact behaviour > under some circumstances (though I haven't seen it reported on exactly > this example). Try using BLT acceleration and see if the problem > remains. > > // Jesper Wow! As you have suggested, it's actually a bug in the Intel GPU drivers. I've tried changing my acceleration from SNA to UXA, and the problem went away. I'm on the latest Linux 4.11.2-1 though. Anyway, thanks a lot for help, I really appreciate it, I was definitely not suspecting GPU drivers for this one. Rastislav _______________________________________________ rxvt-unicode mailing list [email protected] http://lists.schmorp.de/mailman/listinfo/rxvt-unicode
