Bug#236611: xdvi magnifier flickers when moving

[Hilmar Preusse <hille42@web.de>]

reassign 236611  texlive-binaries
stop

On 07.03.04 Stefan Ulrich (stefan.ulrich@zen.co.uk) wrote:
> Enrico Zini <enrico@debian.org> writes:

Hi Stefan,

> > This is just a minor flaw in xdvi: when right-dragging on a
> > document, you get the big magnifier you can more around. 
> > However, if you do that, during moves there is a white flicker
> > between every update, probably due to lack of double buffering.
> 
> Yup; AFAIK there are no plans to implement double buffering. It
> would be a rather large change since currently xdvi draws
> everything `on demand'. If I'm not mistaken, using double buffering
> would e.g. make switching the pages slower than it currently is
> 
I guess there is no progress here and we still don't have double
buffering, right? Reassigning to texlive-binaries for now.

H.
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