chandran@lucy.slcs.slb.com (Sharat Chandran) (02/07/90)
Can somebody tell me how, if at all, I can avoide the annoying flicker on a "xterm" session? More specifically: I am using the X Consortium X11R4 server on a Sun 4/260. If I have a full page on a screen, and I type "ls", to list the contents of a directory, I see this whole window getting repainted line by line, and I can *see* that happen. It creates a flicker and distracts the user. What perhaps should happen is a block copy of the whole page less a few lines (that are now occupied by the output of the "ls" command). I did not see this happen on the Sun supplied X11/NeWS (R3 compatible) server. So what gives? (Ditto with gnu emacs running in its X window). What should I do to avoid this? I am using the "-j" switch to allow "jump scrolling". [xwininfo says that ==> Window Backing Store State: NotUseful ==> Window Save Under State: no ] Thanks, chandran@slcs.slb.com
casey@gauss.llnl.gov (Casey Leedom) (02/10/90)
| From: chandran@slcs.slb.com | | Can somebody tell me how, if at all, I can avoid the annoying flicker | on a "xterm" session? I wonder if this is the same thing which causes xterm to repaint itself when you do a mouse mark selection? The funny thing about this is that xterm doesn't do it all the time. So far I've been completely unable to come up with a sequence of events that will cause this behavior reliably. Unfortunately it happens a LOT. This makes marking selections on my GraphOn a real pain since all those bits have to flow down a low bandwidth pipe ... Casey