FC6, NVidia and Nedit

[Eddy De Greef]

Jim Wilson wrote:
> Thorsten Haude wrote:
> 
>> So your treasured editor is, what, Emacs?
> 
> Once I tried to learn Emacs, but quickly bogged down.  It was far too
> complicated for a simple mind like mine.
> 
>> Just to clear that up: This is only a visual effect? The documents are
>> as you expect them to be?
> 
> Yes.  I can restore the display by minimizing and re enlarging nedit's
> window.  Strangely, burying nedit beneath other windows and digging it
> back up leaves the display corrupted.
> 
>> Any chance of binary mixup? Could you send us 'nedit -V' for both
>> versions?
> 
> Anything is possible.  I exorcised the Fedora version with "rpm -e ...".
>  The screenshots were generated with:
> 
> NEdit 5.5
> Sep 30, 2004
> 
>      Built on: Linux, 386, GNU C
>      Built at: Oct  1 2004, 15:55:40
>    With Motif: 2.1.30 [@(#)Motif Version 2.1.30]
> Running Motif: 2.1 [unknown]
>        Server: The X.Org Foundation 70101000
>        Visual: 32-bit TrueColor (ID 0x104)
>        Locale: en_US.iso885915
> 
> I notice the Locale is set to some crazy value, but (following the
> admonition on nedit.org), I earlier set "export LANG=en_US" (in lieu
> absence of any other recommendations), and the same display corruption
> occurred.
> 
> Let me reinstall the FC6 version.....
> 
> Hm...  Although I was sober when I tested earlier, now when I run
> "/usr/bin/nedit <myfile>", it segfaults!  Apparently, I was running the
> nedit.org version.  I did have to clean out nedit 5.5RC1 to make way for
> real 5.5.
> 
> Examining my PATH, I see the old nedit 5.5RC1 (official) version would
> have been preferred over the FC6 distro version all along.  It must have
> shielded me from the nastier bug.
> 
> FYI, invoked "/usr/bin/nedit -V", the Fedora version reports:
> 
> NEdit 5.5
> Sep 30, 2004
> 
>      Built on: Linux, 386, GNU C
>      Built at: Sep  2 2006, 09:29:29
>    With Motif: 2.1.0 [@(#)GNU/LessTif Version 2.1 Release 0.95.0] (UNTESTED)
> Running Motif: 2.1 [unknown]
>        Server: The X.Org Foundation 70101000
>        Visual: 24-bit TrueColor (ID 0x21, Default)
>        Locale: en_US.iso885915
> 
> "export LANG=en_US" doesn't seem to help the segfault situation.
> 

Try export XLIB_SKIP_ARGB_VISUALS=1
It may help with the display corruption and/or the crash.

Eddy