Most of the time I, and I would assume most others, use fixed fonts with xemacs. So would it be possible to treat fixed fonts as a special case. As a naive user, the amount that needs to be deleted seems to be the size of the cursor. Peter On Sun, 2006-10-15 at 02:13 -0400, Stephen J. Turnbull wrote: > Peter Gordon writes: > > > ./configure --prefix=/sw/xemacs-21.5.27 --with-xft > > --with-xft=emacs,tabs,menubars,gauges --without-debug > > --without-error-checking --with-gtk > > --with-xft --with-gtk may be a bad idea. AFAIK no attempt has been > made to > > > This is a demonstration of a bug which creates unnecessary lines. > > Xft lies about the size of the bounding box. Naive attempts to avoid > the lines by "clearing too much" result in other parts of the display > getting trashed. I've chosen to leave the lines there as a visible > reminder of the problem. But it's equally there in recent updates of > Mozilla Firefox for X11, they just chose to clear parts of neighboring > display, which is less blatant but still pretty ugly to my mind. > > Patches which fix the problem correctly or information about how to > get Xft to tell the truth about the text extent that it is actually > going to write would be very welcome. > > > >