weird X problem

[bpark]

I've been experiencing a weird emacs related problem and I was wondering if anyone could help.
The weird picture is located at http://rplaca.cs.qc.edu/~bpark/weird.jpg

The normal picture is located at http://rplaca.cs.qc.edu/~bpark/normal.jpg

This happens from time to time. There is no consistency. From what I can tell, the weird picture looks like the cursor(on 'W') has double height. Somehow, it's double spaced on its own. If anyone has any suggestions, please post something.

bp

[Dolda2000]

It seems strange that it happens randomly. Could it be some font problem?

[bpark]

OK,

After trying out some tests, it seems that the emacs window will become weird when another X-window application is launched. For example, when I visit certain web sites that have java applets, a new window will pop up and display if I want to grant permission for this session or not. Once this window pops up, the emacs fonts become all weird.
Did I mention that the problem goes away when I log back in to the system?

bp

[Dolda2000]

That seems like a bug in the X server. Which version are you using?

[bpark]

I believe I'm using v 4.1.0-16. For some reason. The only thing I did to tweak this was add a .Xresources file and .Xdefaults file in my home directory. They contain nothing else other than setting up that emacs font. Another thing I did was removing xfonts-100dpi. I manually deleted the lines that contained the path to these directories since I deleted them.

bp

[Dolda2000]

I don't think that it's a config error since it's caused by another program, something that should never happen. Maybe you should report this to one of the mailing lists at www.xfree86.org.

[bpark]

I'd like to add that running gkrellm also causes this problem. Again, gkrellm uses X so I guess it's nothing new but I was hoping that someone may have solution to this.

bp