Re: Bug report - Flickering when resizing the terminal window lynx is running in

Thomas Dickey <[email protected]> Thu, 25 May 2023 17:22:46 -0400

Newsgroups	gmane.comp.web.lynx.devel
Message-ID	<ZG/[email protected]>

On Thu, May 25, 2023 at 07:51:29PM +0000, [email protected] wrote:
> Hi. 
> 
> Thank you for lynx, I love it! 
> 
> I recently found a bug. 
> 
> I use lynx in the terminal called rxvt-unicode on Devuan 12 Codename Daedalus. 
> When lynx is already running in that terminal and I resize the window, lynx flickers when I switch throught the links of an webpage with arrow keys or vi controls. 

someone did report this last year, but didn't mention urxvt.

https://lists.nongnu.org/archive/html/lynx-dev/2022-06/msg00000.html

> I found out, that this also happens in xterminal, but not in xfce4-terminal for example. 

s/xterminal/xterm/ ?

I don't see it with xterm, at any rate.

> Someone with much more expertise than me told me, that it could be, that: 
> „it also completely loses the background color and line formatting when you first resize the window, then when you move the cursor and it redraws, the first redraw fixes the layout and colors. it's just that then every subsequent redraw is done in vain“ 
> 
> At the moment my workarround for this issue is, that I first open my terminal, resize the window and only then start lynx. 
> But it would be nice to just use my hotkey to start lynx and then resize the window (my window manager does not support maximizing windows by default only with a keystroke after focusing a window, it is very minimal).
> 
> Maybe you can fix this. 
> 
> Best Regards 
> hacksenwerk
> 

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Thomas E. Dickey <[email protected]>
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