nedit doesn't properly refresh display

[Eric Bouyoux]

Hi,

If I remember well, I already had this problem under Mandriva + KDE 3.4
or 3.5 (one or two years ago). This problem did not appear with Gnome. I
don't know what it is related to.

Eric.

Emmanuel Florac a écrit :
> HI all, I've just upgraded my system to Slackware 12.2 and now, nedit
> doesn't refresh the display properly : when scrolling up, it simply
> fill its window with a couple of random lines from the file. Selecting
> all forces refreshing; however that makes nedit close to unusable.
>
> I've tried compiling nedit myself; it's slightly better in a way (it
> refreshes correctly) but worse in some other way (I have to clear all
> my .Xresources customization or nedit crashes instantly). Furthermore,
> I'd need to compile and install openmotif because the lesstif on my
> system isn't supported but I postponed this, because I have no other
> significant motif application which isn't lesstif compatible.
>
> I think the nedit 5.5 official linux binary is well due a refresh or
> perhaps a new version to run on latest x.org, isn't it?
>
>