Re: FVWM: garbled screen for big outputs

On 21/09/17 18:30, Pierre Frenkiel wrote:
> On Sun, 18 Sep 2017, E Frank Ball wrote:
>> Try xterm, or rxvt, or gnome-terminal
> 
>    thanks Frank, and also Dan , for your suggestions, but
>    the problem is actually with xterm.
>    I also tried with rxvt: it's worse.
>    Withe kde x-terminal-emulator, no problem.

That would be Konsole, unless they've made a new one.

>    Here are the results of different tests
> 
>    ==> xterm -geometry 100x40+0+70 -ls   good
>    ==> xterm -geometry 120x40+0+70 -ls   garbled screen
> 
>    ==> rxvt -geometry 80x40+0+70 -ls     good
>    ==> rxvt -geometry 100x40+0+70 -ls    garbled screen
> 
> It looks like a bug, and I think I'll do a bug report, unless somebody
> suggests something else.

I'd be suspicious of the video drivers… perhaps Xlib (xterm, rxvt?) is
triggering some bug in the video driver that Qt (Konsole) isn't.
qterminal is another Qt-based terminal emulator that might confirm
whether the widget set is having an effect.
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