On Wed, Mar 19, 2014 at 04:34:40PM -0400, Andrew Warshall wrote: > Hi- > > Been using LFS/BLFS as my main system for almost 8 years now, > recently did my 6th build; so thanks! This one has the "feature" > that text on-screen sometimes (infrequently) becomes garbled to the > point of illegibility. I can make it come back (usually) by forcing > the program to redraw it, or clicking on it, or the like. This can > happen to lines in text entry boxes, menu items, spreadsheet cells > --- I would guess anything, really. I've seen it in Emacs, Gnumeric > and Firefox. Note that Emacs and Gnumeric use GTK3 while Firefox > still uses GTK2, so it's unlikely to be a GTK bug per se (though it > could be a bug in a GTK dependency). Searching the web has > revealed nothing apparently useful. Where do you suggest I look? > > Thanks in advance, > > Andrew Warshall
You don't say which versions you are using. There _was_ a past bug with cairo or the xorg-server (apparently, a particular version of cairo triggered it in the newer xserver), but that was all-but two years ago : the thread appears to start at http://osdir.com/ml/blfs-support/2012-04/msg00002.html (I say "appears" because Tobias was referring to something Andy had written). I don't use emacs, and now only use gnumeric for testing the book (and it worked for me in BLFS-7.5, although I didn't use it a lot). I haven't seen that sort of problem in current firefox versions for a very long time. So, is this a very old version of the book ? Or perhaps you are using very recent BLFS-svn ? (I haven't updated packages on my systems, except gnutls/sqlite/nss/nspr/firefox, since BLFS-7.5). ĸen -- das eine Mal als Tragödie, dieses Mal als Farce -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/blfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
