Re: [9fans] refresh problems with drawterm on x (freebsd)?

[Ralph Corderoy <ralph@inputplus.co.uk>]

Hi Russ,

> > I'm coming into the conversation part-way through here, but if
> > you're saying you've an X client doing XDrawText() and
> > XFillRectangle() Xlib calls, or you're generating the equivalent
> > protocol, there's no way that the operations should be done out of
> > order.
> 
> I'm an X client

And proud of it?

> doing:
> 
> 	XFillRectangle
> 	XGetSubImage
> 	XPutImage
> 
> in that order, and it appears that the XFillRectangle sometimes
> completes after the XPutImage.

You could try trimming a couple of pixels off the filled rectangle all
the way around so you can see the text peeking out if it truely is
happening that way.

> It certainly seems X server dependent, but I attributed that to some
> cards have an accelerated XFillRectangle and some not.

As I said before, any `acceleration' under the X server's cover doesn't
alter the model presented to the client.  I suggest contacting the X
server people.

Cheers,

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