On 2019-04-20, rlhar...@oplink.net <rlhar...@oplink.net> wrote: > >> But looking at just emacs, xdvi, and xterm running in separate >> windows, I can't see any difference in their behaviour from what I >> remember in the dim and distant past. The one unusual (for me) >> property of xdvi is that it rereads the input file whenever its window >> is exposed, without needing a ^R keystroke. I have no idea whether >> this might interact with certain sorts of window manager. > > Sadly, that property is not working on my Debian 9 system, and it is > needed.
There's an old bug about xdvi autofresh not working with the XFCE "compositing manager." https://sourceforge.net/p/xdvi/bugs/354/ According to the xdvi man page, the default is not to refresh ('-watchfile n' must be set to a value larger than 0, zero being the default). You probably know this already (as you had it all working before upgrading to number 9). > Again, things were running properly with Debian 8. Something changed > when I installed Debian 9. While typing this reply, I just now realize > that I installed Debian 9 on a different machine (this box), so the > machine with the Debian 8 installation is still intact. Could there be > something pathological in this hardware, such as memory going bad? >
