23.0.50; whole frame flickers on every keystroke with menu-bar-mode

[David O'Toole]

Recently I began using the emacs menu bar. I configured emacs with the
lucid toolkit so that I could customize how the menus look. Frequently
when I toggle the menu bar on or off with M-x menu-bar-mode, the whole
emacs frame will flicker; I see the background color without any text
for a split second; then all the text is redrawn. This flickering then
repeats with every single keystroke or mouse-click. When I toggle the
menu bar again, it stops (but then I have no menu bar.)

I run Emacs in X, over an SSH connection on a LAN.

this is the command line i used to start Emacs:

> emacs -xrm \
> "Emacs*pane*menubar*font: lucidasanstypewriter-12" \
> -xrm "Emacs*pane*menubar.foreground: gray40" \
> -xrm "Emacs*pane*menubar.background: white" \
> -xrm "Emacs*pane*menubar.buttonForeground: white" \
> -xrm "Emacs*pane*menubar*shadowThickness: 0" \
> -xrm "Emacs*pane*menubar*arrowSpacing: 40" \
> -xrm "Emacs*menu*font: lucidasanstypewriter-12" \
> -xrm "Emacs*menu*font: lucidasanstypewriter-12" \
> -xrm "Emacs*menu*foreground: gray40" \
> -xrm "Emacs*menu*background: white" \
> -xrm "Emacs*menu*buttonForeground: red" \
> -xrm "Emacs*menu*shadowThickness: 0" 

(The flickering issue is still there when I start Emacs without these
options.)

In GNU Emacs 23.0.50.1 (i686-pc-linux-gnu, X toolkit)
 of 2007-09-26 on localhost.localdomain
Windowing system distributor `The X.Org Foundation', version 11.0.70101000
configured using `configure  '--prefix=/usr/local' 
'--without-toolkit-scroll-bars' '--with-x-toolkit=lucid''

Important settings:
  value of $LC_ALL: nil
  value of $LC_COLLATE: nil
  value of $LC_CTYPE: nil
  value of $LC_MESSAGES: nil
  value of $LC_MONETARY: nil
  value of $LC_NUMERIC: nil
  value of $LC_TIME: nil
  value of $LANG: en_US.UTF-8
  locale-coding-system: utf-8
  default-enable-multibyte-characters: t

Major mode: Lisp Interaction

Minor modes in effect:
  eldoc-mode: t
  light-symbol-mode: t
  iswitchb-mode: t
  display-time-mode: t
  orgstruct-mode: t
  show-paren-mode: t
  mouse-wheel-mode: t
  menu-bar-mode: t
  file-name-shadow-mode: t
  global-font-lock-mode: t
  font-lock-mode: t
  blink-cursor-mode: t
  unify-8859-on-encoding-mode: t
  utf-translate-cjk-mode: t
  auto-compression-mode: t
  line-number-mode: t
  transient-mark-mode: t

Recent input:
n f n f <backspace> <backspace> <backspace> <backspace> 
M-x s c r a t <backspace> <backspace> <backspace> <backspace> 
<backspace> c i l <backspace> <backspace> <backspace> 
m e n u - b a r - m o d e <return> l d l d <backspace> 
<backspace> <backspace> <backspace> M-x <up> <return> 
n s j j d M-x <up> <return> d d d <backspace> <backspace> 
<backspace> <backspace> <backspace> <backspace> <backspace> 
<backspace> M-x 4 r e p o r <backspace> <backspace> 
<backspace> <backspace> <backspace> <backspace> r e 
p o r t - e m a c s - b u g <return>

Recent messages:
Loading `product': old-style backquotes detected!
Loading `elscreen': old-style backquotes detected!
Loading /home/dto/e/init.el (source)...done
OVERVIEW
For information about GNU Emacs and the GNU system, type C-h C-a.
Menu-Bar mode enabled
Menu-Bar mode disabled
Menu-bar mode disabled.  Use M-x menu-bar-mode to make the menu bar appear.
Menu-Bar mode enabled
set-fill-column: set-fill-column requires an explicit argument


-- 
David O'Toole 
address@hidden
http://dto.freeshell.org/notebook/