Re: Emacs GTK scroll-bar flickering

[Miles Bader]

"Jan D." <address@hidden> writes:
> So Gedit has double buffering, Emacs has not.  This is a huge difference
> and explains why the scroll bars in GTK can "get away" with a sloppy
> redraw strategy (i.e. clear all and redraw).

Hmm, that makes sense.

Perhaps GTK needs some way to say `suspend the (GTK) event loop, but
allow it to be resumed later as if nothing changed' (with some other
function that you can call to tell it `something's actually changed').

-Miles
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