Bug 250943 – rxvt-unicode text becomes jumbled when window is over it

• Product: Gentoo Linux
• Status: RESOLVED NEEDINFO

[Description Steven DuBois 2008-12-14 15:59:12 UTC]

When a window is over a rxvt-unicode window with scrolling text (irssi, emerge, etc), the next scrolling becomes jumbled and is only clear when the window is moved. This does not happen when xterm is used, so i do not think it is a problem with the vesa driver. I am using the evilwm window manager and i do not have this problem on my PowerPC machine (also running Gentoo with evilwm and urxvt)

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.Open urxvt and have text scroll (emerge --sync for example)
2.Place another window over the urxvt window
3.where the bottom of the top window is over the urxvt window, the text will become unreadable.
4. Move the urxvt window and the text will clear up.

Actual Results:  
Text became unreadable.

Expected Results:  
Text should be readabble.

I tried many different programs over the urxvt window with the same result.

Portage 2.1.4.5 (default/linux/x86/2008.0, gcc-4.1.2, glibc-2.6.1-r0, 2.6.27-gentoo-r5 i686)
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System uname: 2.6.27-gentoo-r5 i686 Intel(R) Core(TM)2 Duo CPU P8400 @ 2.26GHz
Timestamp of tree: Sat, 13 Dec 2008 20:00:01 +0000
app-shells/bash:     3.2_p33
dev-lang/python:     2.4.4-r13
dev-python/pycrypto: 2.0.1-r6
sys-apps/baselayout: 1.12.11.1
sys-apps/sandbox:    1.2.18.1-r2
sys-devel/autoconf:  2.13, 2.61-r2
sys-devel/automake:  1.4_p6, 1.7.9-r1, 1.9.6-r2, 1.10.1-r1
sys-devel/binutils:  2.18-r3
sys-devel/gcc-config: 1.4.0-r4
sys-devel/libtool:   1.5.26
virtual/os-headers:  2.6.23-r3
ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86"
CBUILD="i686-pc-linux-gnu"
CFLAGS="-O2 -march=prescott -pipe"
CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu"
CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/kde/3.5/env /usr/kde/3.5/share/config /usr/kde/3.5/shutdown /usr/share/config"
CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/env.d /etc/fonts/fonts.conf /etc/gconf /etc/revdep-rebuild /etc/terminfo /etc/texmf/web2c /etc/udev/rules.d"
CXXFLAGS="-O2 -march=prescott -pipe"
DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles"
FEATURES="distlocks metadata-transfer sandbox sfperms strict unmerge-orphans userfetch"
GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/linux/distributions/gentoo/"
LDFLAGS="-Wl,-O1"
MAKEOPTS="-j3"
PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages"
PORTAGE_RSYNC_OPTS="--recursive --links --safe-links --perms --times --compress --force --whole-file --delete --stats --timeout=180 --exclude=/distfiles --exclude=/local --exclude=/packages"
PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp"
PORTDIR="/usr/portage"
SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage"
USE="X aac acl alsa avi berkdb binary bzip2 cairo cdio cdr cli cracklib crypt cups dri dts dvd dvdr dvdread encode exif ffmpeg fortran gdbm gif gnutls gpm gstreamer gtk iconv ipv6 isdnlog jpeg libedit live mad midi mjpeg mp3 mpeg mudflap ncurses nls nptl nptlonly off opengl openmp pam pcre perl png pppd python qt3 qt4 readline reflection session skins sng spell spl sptl ssl stream svga sysfs tcpd theora tiff tk unicode vorbis wxwindows x264 x86 xorg xulrunner xv xvid zlib" ALSA_CARDS="ali5451 als4000 atiixp atiixp-modem bt87x ca0106 cmipci emu10k1 emu10k1x ens1370 ens1371 es1938 es1968 fm801 hda-intel intel8x0 intel8x0m maestro3 trident usb-audio via82xx via82xx-modem ymfpci" ALSA_PCM_PLUGINS="adpcm alaw asym copy dmix dshare dsnoop empty extplug file hooks iec958 ioplug ladspa lfloat linear meter mmap_emul mulaw multi null plug rate route share shm softvol" APACHE2_MODULES="actions alias auth_basic authn_alias authn_anon authn_dbm authn_default authn_file authz_dbm authz_default authz_groupfile authz_host authz_owner authz_user autoindex cache dav dav_fs dav_lock deflate dir disk_cache env expires ext_filter file_cache filter headers include info log_config logio mem_cache mime mime_magic negotiation rewrite setenvif speling status unique_id userdir usertrack vhost_alias" ELIBC="glibc" INPUT_DEVICES="keyboard mouse evdev" KERNEL="linux" LCD_DEVICES="bayrad cfontz cfontz633 glk hd44780 lb216 lcdm001 mtxorb ncurses text" USERLAND="GNU" VIDEO_CARDS="fbdev glint i810 intel mach64 mga neomagic nv r128 radeon savage sis tdfx trident vesa vga via vmware voodoo"
Unset:  CPPFLAGS, CTARGET, EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS, FFLAGS, INSTALL_MASK, LANG, LC_ALL, LINGUAS, PORTAGE_COMPRESS, PORTAGE_COMPRESS_FLAGS, PORTAGE_RSYNC_EXTRA_OPTS, PORTDIR_OVERLAY

[Comment 1 Panagiotis Christopoulos (RETIRED) 2008-12-14 21:50:57 UTC]

Please submit your "emerge -pv rxvt-unicode" output. 

[Comment 2 Steven DuBois 2008-12-14 22:33:47 UTC]

Calculating dependencies... done!
[ebuild   R   ] x11-terms/rxvt-unicode-9.05  USE="perl -afterimage -iso14755 -truetype" 0 kB 

Total: 1 package (1 reinstall), Size of downloads: 0 kB

[Comment 3 René Nussbaumer (RETIRED) 2008-12-21 20:42:50 UTC]

I guess this is a bug with your versa device. Can you try to take a screenshot? I saw that for example with nv, switched to a different graphic drivers fixed it.

[Comment 4 Víctor Ostorga (RETIRED) 2009-10-25 18:56:15 UTC]

Reopen when you provide the requested information