Graphical glitch when tint is enabled

Marc Lehmann schmorp at schmorp.de
Thu Feb 22 16:52:23 CET 2007


> > > Hi, I've noticed that when urxvt is resized to a width or height
> > > that is not an integer number of textual rows/columns, and
> > > transparency/tinting is enabled, the bottom and right sides of the
> > 
> > This can be fixed easily by a window manager that follows the
> > program requested size hints.
> > 
> > Low quality window manager directly translates into bad looking
> > output. The fix is a higher quality window manager, not hacks in
> > each and every program (note that urxvt works correctly and fats
> > now, slowing down tinting for bad wms is not acceptable).
> 
> A window manager is allowed to ignore a client's hints; a window
> manager that does so is not so much *bad* as impolite.  

[please everybody note that nobody in this disucssion ever said such a
window manager was bad]

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