Re: [RP] redisplay command

[Jeff Abrahamson]

Hi, Bernhard.

Thanks for the response. These things are never too late.

Since my original mail, I've been paying quite close attention. Indeed, there are a couple dialogs I've seen where this happens to me. I wonder if the goal shouldn't be to fix ratpoison to do this maximize at the end of all window operations before the XSync. I suspect, without having measured yet, that the cost would be negligible as long as it doesn't incur an additional server round-trip.

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On 24 October 2014 09:36, Bernhard R. Link <address@hidden> wrote:

* Jeff Abrahamson <address@hidden> [140907 21:09]:
> I am curious if anyone sees a use for the redisplay command in ratpoison.
> This command feels like it was copied from screen (where line noise makes
> it useful sometimes) and perhaps survives from those early X days when
> asking the server to redraw the screen was sometimes useful in the face of
> programs writing to /dev/console and messing with the display.
>
> I'm not proposing to remove the function, but I wonder if it needs to stay
> in the default key binding map, which seems noisy to me.

I think it is one of the functions I use the most. Most of the time
perhaps unnecessarily, but it is something I almost press without
thinking whenever something in the display of a window is not quite
correct.

It's especially useful with dialogs that ended up in a wrong frame.
Selecting them in a bigger frame does usually not resize them, so
they miss things like the one input field they contain, which a quick
redisplay fixes.

And then there is still that xterm bug causing xterm to not use the
better size mechanics of Linux I think, which causes it often to end up
with the wrong information about the window size within the shell it
spawned, which a quick redisplay fixes.

Sorry for the late answer, I've queued up some mails currently,
        Bernhard R. Link
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