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Rasi

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For all having the blank screen issue with urxvt

...Schmorp tested with me and scion what the cause of those issues might be.

It seems he got a working version ready, which should be released in the next few hours.
Obviously the version in [testing] doesnt have those tweaks, so it might be wise to update that one too.

*edit*

for those interested in such stuff:

[16:14]    schmorp| the problem is that urxvt
[16:14]    schmorp| handles _all_ outstanding events
[16:14]    schmorp| and then flushes the x buffer
[16:14]    schmorp| and for some reason, this leaves a few events pending in the read buffer
[16:14]    schmorp| but that shouldn't be possible
[16:14]    schmorp| Rasi: it seems ti have appeared with libx11-1.1.3
[16:15]    schmorp| the workaround
[16:15]    schmorp| is, isntead of flushing, to flush _and_ check for any remaining events
[16:15]    schmorp| this sdhouldn't be necessary at all
[16:15]    schmorp| we don't know when and why libx11 acquires those new events
[16:15]       Rasi| got in contact with the guys in xorg-dev?
[16:16]    schmorp| no

Last edited by Rasi (2008-01-26 16:00:45)

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MrWeatherbee

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Registered: 2007-08-01

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Re: For all having the blank screen issue with urxvt

Thanks. Not the worst bug in the world, but still a little annoying.

A little background:
http://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=42059
http://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=42185

Nihathrael

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Re: For all having the blank screen issue with urxvt

Just a headsup, Version 9.01 has been released minutes ago, containing a fix for this problem. (at least that's what the change-log says)
http://dist.schmorp.de/rxvt-unicode/Changes

package can be found here: http://dist.schmorp.de/rxvt-unicode/Attic/

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[vEX]

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Re: For all having the blank screen issue with urxvt

9.0 fixed it for me, guess there were some minor issues left?

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MrWeatherbee

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Re: For all having the blank screen issue with urxvt

9.0 fixed it for me, guess there were some minor issues left?

That's weird. I upgraded via pacman this morning to 9.0-1:

[2008-01-26 11:45] upgraded rxvt-unicode (8.9-2 -> 9.0-1)

and I still had the issue (rebooted just to be sure).

So, I just downloaded the 9.01 source using Nihathrael's links, built the package and installed it. Now everything is fine.

Edit:

Just to point out something that I hadn't seen mentioned by anyone else regarding the bug: if I launched rxvt-unicode and it opened directly on the desktop, it would be blank until I clicked on it (or opened another instance of rxvt-unicode).

However, if I had another application open (e.g., Firefox) and rxvt-unicode opened on top of that application's window, rxvt-unicode would properly paint its own window.

Though the behavior was odd, it was 100% repeatable.

Last edited by MrWeatherbee (2008-01-26 22:09:34)

stonecrest

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Re: For all having the blank screen issue with urxvt

9.01 != 9.0-1

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xaw

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Re: For all having the blank screen issue with urxvt

I just stumbled upon this thread and see that I wasn't the only person with this strange issue.

9.0 fixed it for me, guess there were some minor issues left?

Funny you should mention that, cause I was thinking the same thing!

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MrWeatherbee

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Re: For all having the blank screen issue with urxvt

9.01 != 9.0-1

Who are you directing that to?

veek

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Re: For all having the blank screen issue with urxvt

9.01 != 9.0-1

Who are you directing that to?

To you if I'm not mistaken...you upgraded to 9.0-1 via pacman,
but the fix was in 9.01 not 9.0-1.

And for the record, I was having this issue also, but was too tied up
with other stuff to even really think about it. Glad to know it's
resolved.

I feel like it's happened earlier in the past too.

Last edited by veek (2008-01-28 06:16:31)

MrWeatherbee

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Re: For all having the blank screen issue with urxvt

9.01 != 9.0-1

Who are you directing that to?

To you if I'm not mistaken...you upgraded to 9.0-1 via pacman,
but the fix was in 9.01 not 9.0-1.

If you read my post, I was responding to Vex who said 9.0[-1] fixed his issue. Knowing that 9.0[-1] != 9. 01 (and that the fix was in 9.01) , I told him it was weird that 9.0-1 fixed his problem (which is more polite than saying, "Bullsh*t!"), and I confirmed the weirdness by pointing out that the 9.0-1 upgrade I had performed earlier that morning did nothing for me (nor did I expect it to because the fix was in 9.01). Finally, I confirmed that building and installing 9.01 did the trick (as it was supposed to).

I don't really think anybody was confused about 9.0-1 != 9.01. That's why I asked who Stonecrest was talking to. No big deal.

veek

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Re: For all having the blank screen issue with urxvt

Ah ha, should've kept my trap shut