Re: [Gimp-developer] image redraw broken with git sources

[Michael Natterer <mitch gimp org>]

On 10/03/2013 10:40 AM, Helmut Jarausch wrote:
> On 10/02/2013 11:09:22 PM, Michael Natterer wrote:
> > On 10/02/2013 07:35 PM, Helmut Jarausch wrote:
> > > Hi,
> > >
> > > I've built gegl and gimp from GIT sources. The speed of displaying a new image
> > > has much improved recently.
> > > Unfortunately, image updating due to scrolling or a redraw event scrambles the
> > > image completely.
> > >
> > > Is it only here (Gentoo Linux, bleeding edge, gcc-4.7.3) or is it a known bug?
> >
> > You are probably suffering from a cairo issue, either too old cairo, or you
> > are running cairo with the xcb backend.
>
> Many thanks, Michael! That solved the problem, indeed.
> It's just unfortunate that I had to remove the awesome window manager since on my
> (Gentoo) system, awesome needs cairo with xcb enabled.

Perhaps build a separate cairo for GIMP?

Anyway, here is the bug in case you are interested in the details:
https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=67505

--Mitch