Bug#975687: xterm: loses text lines, even descenders from some lines

2020-12-20 Thread Thomas Dickey
On Sun, Dec 20, 2020 at 11:39:15PM +, Thorsten Glaser wrote: > Thomas Dickey dixit: > > >I'm guessing that it's timing, e.g., xterm could wait a few milliseconds > >to retry and then give up on that loop, in case the window events don't > >arrive rapidly enough. > > “rapidly enough” as

Bug#975687: xterm: loses text lines, even descenders from some lines

2020-12-20 Thread Thorsten Glaser
Thomas Dickey dixit: >I'm guessing that it's timing, e.g., xterm could wait a few milliseconds >to retry and then give up on that loop, in case the window events don't >arrive rapidly enough. “rapidly enough” as criterium isn’t going to help everyone. We have multi-GHz desktop bolides, few-MHz

Bug#975687: xterm: loses text lines, even descenders from some lines

2020-12-20 Thread Thomas Dickey
On Sun, Dec 20, 2020 at 10:40:39PM +, Thorsten Glaser wrote: > Thomas Dickey dixit: > > >how far below? > > > >Just the window-decoration, or a line or so? > > About a line, give or take (for the syslog window, the last line > is the cursor, so I don’t need it, and I took a bit more than a >

Bug#975687: xterm: loses text lines, even descenders from some lines

2020-12-20 Thread Thorsten Glaser
Thomas Dickey dixit: >how far below? > >Just the window-decoration, or a line or so? About a line, give or take (for the syslog window, the last line is the cursor, so I don’t need it, and I took a bit more than a line there; for that test, it’s a bit less). >Looking at the changes for #361,

Bug#975687: xterm: loses text lines, even descenders from some lines

2020-12-20 Thread Thomas Dickey
On Sun, Dec 20, 2020 at 07:47:15PM +, Thorsten Glaser wrote: > Thomas Dickey dixit: > > >I see that version in testing, but don't see a problem on the screen. > >I made a short script to cat those lines to the terminal, sleeping 0.2 > >seconds between bursts, and the result looks ok, even

Bug#975687: xterm: loses text lines, even descenders from some lines

2020-12-20 Thread Thorsten Glaser
On Sun, 20 Dec 2020, Thorsten Glaser wrote: > corruption effects which vary (see screenshot). Oops, attached.

Bug#975687: xterm: loses text lines, even descenders from some lines

2020-12-20 Thread Thorsten Glaser
Thomas Dickey dixit: >I see that version in testing, but don't see a problem on the screen. >I made a short script to cat those lines to the terminal, sleeping 0.2 >seconds between bursts, and the result looks ok, even with a magnifier. Indeed, tricky. I experimented with this a bit. I can

Bug#975687: xterm: loses text lines, even descenders from some lines

2020-11-26 Thread Thomas Dickey
On Fri, Nov 27, 2020 at 12:04:07AM +, Thorsten Glaser wrote: > Hi Thomas, > > >If you're going to compile it, the debug-trace can be useful > >(--enable-trace). If not, the -report-fonts option is helpful. > > I hadn’t recompiled, at least not with actual changes. > The -report-fonts output

Bug#975687: xterm: loses text lines, even descenders from some lines

2020-11-26 Thread Thorsten Glaser
Hi Thomas, >If you're going to compile it, the debug-trace can be useful >(--enable-trace). If not, the -report-fonts option is helpful. I hadn’t recompiled, at least not with actual changes. The -report-fonts output is attached, fNorm is the one in question. I did a little bisecting: Debian’s

Bug#975687: xterm: loses text lines, even descenders from some lines

2020-11-26 Thread Thomas Dickey
On Thu, Nov 26, 2020 at 10:52:38PM +, Thorsten Glaser wrote: > Thomas Dickey dixit: > > >"Recently" could be something overlooked in #362's change > > No, 362 is the current one, and I definitely had this in > the previous version shipped in Debian as well, but I can’t > narrow it down

Bug#975687: xterm: loses text lines, even descenders from some lines

2020-11-26 Thread Thorsten Glaser
Thomas Dickey dixit: >"Recently" could be something overlooked in #362's change No, 362 is the current one, and I definitely had this in the previous version shipped in Debian as well, but I can’t narrow it down further than that. According to apt history log, that was 361. >On the other hand

Bug#975687: xterm: loses text lines, even descenders from some lines

2020-11-26 Thread Thomas Dickey
On Wed, Nov 25, 2020 at 06:26:14AM +0100, Thorsten Glaser wrote: > Package: xterm > Version: 362-1 > Severity: normal > X-Debbugs-Cc: t...@mirbsd.de > > I’ve got the following in my ~/.xinitrc… > > /usr/bin/xterm +sb -fg black -geom 78x10+1+637 \ > -bg slateblue -e top & >

Bug#975687: xterm: loses text lines, even descenders from some lines

2020-11-24 Thread Thorsten Glaser
Package: xterm Version: 362-1 Severity: normal X-Debbugs-Cc: t...@mirbsd.de I’ve got the following in my ~/.xinitrc… /usr/bin/xterm +sb -fg black -geom 78x10+1+637 \ -bg slateblue -e top & /usr/bin/xterm +sb -fg black -geom 90x11+475+637 \ -bg