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When doing a selection in a text editor, I get vertical white lines more or less randomly throughout the selection. It seems it is rendering the cursor ontop of the selection. If I select more than one line it is normally fine unless I drag the mouse over the text (causing the cursor to render again ?). Not sure if this is related to the coloring issues in Bug 112811, but it manifests differently and I doubt this is a Theme engine issue.
Created attachment 28360 [details] Selection issue on Suse 10
Felipe, any ideas? Morten, what video card and which X driver? Could you try adding Option "NoAccel" "true" in the "Device" section of your X config file and see if this makes the problem go away?
what font are you using ? could you try to change the font and see if it fixes it ?
Felipes suggestions helped. I was using "Courier New 9" (MS TTF Font). I tried a bunch of other fixed fonts (including SuSe/KDE default "Monospace") and it still fails. Change the size to 8 or 10 though, it works fine. Same with most other fonts, they just don't work in the size '9' .... There are some exceptions that fails on 8, and "Sans" (default non-fixed font on SuSe) works on size 9, but for the most part this works except the font I used to use (I kept my preferences from my old Suse 9.1 install). Using NVidia's X driver (Suse automatically downloads it).
Solved the problem this way: >xdpyinfo | grep dimension dimensions: 1024x768 pixels (306x229 millimeters) If this are not correct then correct them into your /etc/X11/xorg.conf until > xdpyinfo | grep resolution resolution: 85x85 dots per inch give your a squared resolution. Restart X and then enter your Eclipse. Here select Preferences->General->Appearance->Colors and Fonts and check if "Text Fonts" is "Courier New","Regular","11". Then reset the configuration for "Java Editor" and "Properties Editor". This worked great for me.
Bah. I'm having this problem too with Gentoo and gnome. Only I have problems with using Monospace 10, while it works great on Monospace 11. A colleague of mine has it with Fedora and XFCE, so it thought GTK is responsible for it, because it surfaced when I updated my Gnome to the latest version. I have noticed, that the white vertical lines appear before/after a color change in the text, i.e., maybe the color changing codes (if such exist, of course) are rendering for some reason as white lines in the text. P.S.: I squared it to 95x95, no change whatsoever.
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 123425 ***
