flickering graphics; cairo overlays are fighting with vte for redraws?

Bug #249065 reported by holst
4
Affects Status Importance Assigned to Milestone
Terminator
Fix Released
Undecided
chantra

Bug Description

When you use to mouse to move a terminal around, to change the grid of terminals there is an excessive amount of flickering.

1. Create two terminals inside terminator.
2. Drag one of them (using the mouse) around.

ng said on irc (2008-07-16)

"I suspect there's not much we can do about that, the cairo overlays are fighting with vte for redraws, but it may be worth filing a bug about"

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chantra (chantra) wrote :

I can repro this when turning compiz off .
and I had (and still have) this issue on the term-objects branch.

Changed in terminator:
assignee: nobody → chantra
status: New → Confirmed
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chantra (chantra) wrote :

out of topic:
google this : cairo flickering
this bug is the first result :) in 4 hours

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chantra (chantra) wrote :

hi holst,

can you pull trunk rev 447 pls.
Does it fix your issue?

cheers

Changed in terminator:
milestone: none → 0.9.1
status: Confirmed → In Progress
chantra (chantra)
Changed in terminator:
status: In Progress → Fix Committed
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holst (henrik-holst-matmech) wrote :

Thanks for a quick fix. :-)

It looks perfect now.

Chris Jones (cmsj)
Changed in terminator:
status: Fix Committed → Fix Released
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