Redraw problem with overlapping frames

[David Kastrup]

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Please describe exactly what actions triggered the bug
and the precise symptoms of the bug:

When I have overlapping frames and issue a command in the lower frame
that will cause the minibuffer to be extended in size (here:
emacs-version), then after the resize, there is redraw cruft in the
lower frame (which disappears once the minibuffer is shrunk again).
One can't consistently trigger this, and the probability of getting
this behavior is much lower when compared to versions from the
beginning of the year.  I would not recommend trying to fix this in
EMACS_22_BASE as the effect lasts only temporarily (until the
minibuffer gets shrunk again).  For Emacs 23, however, one might want
to see how it is triggered.

I have only ever seen this effect with overlapping Emacs frames from
the same session: overlapping frames from other applications possibly
don't trigger it (no guarantees, though).  I include a screenshot.

In GNU Emacs 23.0.51.5 (i686-pc-linux-gnu, GTK+ Version 2.10.11, multi-tty)
 of 2007-05-25 on lisa
Windowing system distributor `The X.Org Foundation', version 11.0.70200000
configured using `configure  '--prefix=/usr/local/emacs-21' '--with-gtk' 
'--without-toolkit-scroll-bars' 'CFLAGS=-g -O2 -fno-crossjumping''

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: PDFTeX

Minor modes in effect:
  TeX-PDF-mode: t
  server-mode: t
  desktop-save-mode: t
  tooltip-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

Recent input:
<return> n <return> SPC SPC E q <return> SPC n n q 
g q y M-x e m a c s - v e r <tab> <return> <S-print> 
M-x e m a c s <f12> - v e r <tab> <return> <C-print> 
M-x e m a c s - v e r <tab> <return>

Recent messages:
GNU Emacs 23.0.51.5 (i686-pc-linux-gnu, GTK+ Version 2.10.11, multi-tty) of 
2007-05-25 on lisa [3 times]

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David Kastrup