[gentoo-user] Strange problem with urxvt

[gentoo-user] Strange problem with urxvt

[Allan Nielsen]

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Hi

First of all, sorry if this is not the right forum to post this question.


I'm having a strange problem with urxvt on one of my computers.

When I uses a command which type some text on the screen and then waits for
input, the text does not appear in urxvt until I resize the window, or
forces an redraw in other ways.

It works fine with other terminal emulators, and urxvt works fine on my
other computer (with the same settings).

I'm using gentoo, xmonad and urxvt


Does any of you have a clue on what might be my problem?

Best regards
Allan W. Nielsen

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Re: [gentoo-user] Strange problem with urxvt

[Michael Mol]

On Mon, Oct 3, 2011 at 1:54 PM, Allan Nielsen <a@awn.dk> wrote:
> Hi
>
> First of all, sorry if this is not the right forum to post this question.
>
>
> I'm having a strange problem with urxvt on one of my computers.
>
> When I uses a command which type some text on the screen and then waits for
> input, the text does not appear in urxvt until I resize the window, or
> forces an redraw in other ways.
>
> It works fine with other terminal emulators, and urxvt works fine on my
> other computer (with the same settings).
>
> I'm using gentoo, xmonad and urxvt
>
>
> Does any of you have a clue on what might be my problem?

My first guess would be a bug in xmonad, urxvt, or even your video driver.

1) If you use ssh X forwarding to run urxvt on the affected host (so,
from a machine running xmonad, but not the machine with the problem,
"ssh -x host_with_problem urxvt"), do you see the same artifact?

2) Do the versions of xmonad and urxvt on your various systems differ?
Can you upgrade or downgrade xmonad and/or urxvt on the affected
system to match the other systems? Does doing so resolve the problem?

3) Does the affected system use a different video driver than the
unaffected systems? If it uses the same video driver, is it using a
different version? (And if it uses the same video driver, but
different versions, does switching to a video driver version matching
an unaffected system solve the problem?)

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Re: [gentoo-user] Strange problem with urxvt

[Bill Longman]

On 10/03/2011 10:54 AM, Allan Nielsen wrote:
> Hi
> 
> First of all, sorry if this is not the right forum to post this question.
> 
> 
> I'm having a strange problem with urxvt on one of my computers.
> 
> When I uses a command which type some text on the screen and then waits
> for input, the text does not appear in urxvt until I resize the window,
> or forces an redraw in other ways.
> 
> It works fine with other terminal emulators, and urxvt works fine on my
> other computer (with the same settings).
> 
> I'm using gentoo, xmonad and urxvt
> 
> 
> Does any of you have a clue on what might be my problem?

I have a similar problem with xterm in KDE using radeon. Is that your
environment, too, Allan? (You should have provided your X version and
video driver information in your question, BTW.)

I see it across the board on radeon only, though, with X 1.10.4. I have
"focus-follows-mouse" and I just mouse out and back to my xterm and it
redraws. It seems any xterm-type terminal does the same thing. I don't
think I have ever had the problem with konsole, though.

Re: [gentoo-user] Strange problem with urxvt

[Michael Mol]

On Mon, Oct 3, 2011 at 3:09 PM, Bill Longman <bill.longman@gmail.com> wrote:
> On 10/03/2011 10:54 AM, Allan Nielsen wrote:
>> I'm using gentoo, xmonad and urxvt
>
> I have a similar problem with xterm in KDE using radeon. Is that your
> environment, too, Allan?

xmonad is a window manager, so he wouldn't be using kwin. I don't know
how much KDE or xdg integration it does, though.

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Re: [gentoo-user] Strange problem with urxvt

[Bill Longman]

On 10/03/2011 12:26 PM, Michael Mol wrote:
> On Mon, Oct 3, 2011 at 3:09 PM, Bill Longman <bill.longman@gmail.com> wrote:
>> On 10/03/2011 10:54 AM, Allan Nielsen wrote:
>>> I'm using gentoo, xmonad and urxvt
>>
>> I have a similar problem with xterm in KDE using radeon. Is that your
>> environment, too, Allan?
> 
> xmonad is a window manager, so he wouldn't be using kwin. I don't know
> how much KDE or xdg integration it does, though.

Yes, I was asking about his hardware environment, Michael. I do not see
the same problem on my nvidia cards.