Please, your R is well out of date and you are asked NOT to submit bug 
reports on obselete versions.  Nor, BTW, on things you are not sure are R 
bugs.

The window manager hinting was changed in 2.2.0, and some people who used 
to experience this sort of thing say it is solved.


On Mon, 24 Oct 2005 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

> Full_Name: Keith Frost
> Version: 2.1.0
> OS: Debian Sarge
> Submission from: (NULL) (66.162.141.10)
>
>
> This has actually been a problem for some time in R under Linux. (I noticed
> it under previous builds for Redhat 9 as well.)  The graphics device windows
> produced by the x11() function do not always get redrawn when they should,
> sometimes leaving the device blank when there should be a graph on it.
> I do not know for sure that this is an R-specific problem (I suppose the
> window manager could be failing to pass along the correct redraw information),
> but I thought I'd try to find out if other people are experiencing it, and
> if it can be tracked down and fixed.
>
> To reproduce:
>
> Bring up a number of plots with the x11() function, and graph things on them.
> Move
> other windows to cover, and then reveal, the various plot windows, until -- 
> one
> or more
> of your graphs disappears.  Move the graphs over each other to get the graphs 
> to
> come
> back.   Etc.
>
> ______________________________________________
> R-devel@r-project.org mailing list
> https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel
>
>

-- 
Brian D. Ripley,                  [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Professor of Applied Statistics,  http://www.stats.ox.ac.uk/~ripley/
University of Oxford,             Tel:  +44 1865 272861 (self)
1 South Parks Road,                     +44 1865 272866 (PA)
Oxford OX1 3TG, UK                Fax:  +44 1865 272595

______________________________________________
R-devel@r-project.org mailing list
https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel

Reply via email to