Re: gtk+ HEAD regression: "rotated text" reproduces screen content (instead of pixmap?)



On Wed, 2005-06-15 at 08:32 +0200, Christof Petig wrote:
> Owen Taylor schrieb:
> > This is:
> > 
> >  http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=305459
> > 
> > on the "must fix" list for 2.7.0.
> 
> Great that it is known. It does not sound like the problem is well
> understood though :-(

I'm trying to get a Pango release out this week; once I do that,
I'll turn to this bug, if someone else doesn't get to it first.

> >> testgtk "rotated text" shows the same problem: The text is replaced
> >>with random screen contents (switching desktops even replicates previous
> >>desktop's contents). The attached image shows my ubuntu desktop mirrored
> >>in the window.
> > 
> > 
> > A server bug and not a regression from 2.6.
> 
> I would have betted that "rotated text" uses a background pixmap since
> the error looks the same (misplaced screen content).

Displaying random bits of video memory is a very common symptom of
lots of different sorts of bugs.

> Server bug is indead worst case: People (using Xorg 6.8.2) have to
> upgrade their X server when switching to gtk 2.7 :-(

That won't be necessary. If there is a server bug, we will code around
it.

Regards,
						Owen

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