Hello,

Starting a few days ago, GNU Emacs became unusable for me on X11.

If I perform some operation within emacs that updates the contents of the
buffer, the X11 window displays something like the new contents
superimposed on the old contents.

For example, if I run "emacs -q" , it will launch and show the *GNU Emacs*
buffer with the welcome text and the red and blue drawing of the gnu. If I
hit "C-h i" to go to the top level of Info, the X11 window shows the
standard *info* buffer mixed with of the *GNU Emacs* buffer- part of the
red/blue drawing is visible, as well as some of the welcome text.

I've put a screenshot here: http://i.imgur.com/iUuZB.png

The terminal version of emacs does not have this problem- if I run "emacs
-nw", this garbaging doesn't happen.

If I switch to a different virtual desktop, then switch back to the virtual
desktop containing emacs, or if I resize the X11 emacs window, the emacs
X11 window becomes ungarbaged. Unfortunately, if I perform another
operation within emacs, the emacs X11 window immediately becomes garbaged
again.

Since I usually use the development version of emacs24 straight from
bazaar, at first I assumed that it was a new emacs bug, but this also
happens with the Debian emacs23 package as well, so I suspect the problem
is with a Debian X11-related package. OTOH, I haven't noticed any program
besides emacs exhibiting this behavior, so I'm unsure which package to
report the bug against.

I'm primarily running testing/wheezy, but I occasionally install packages
from unstable.

Any advice for debugging or bug reporting is very welcome!

~Phillip

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