Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 33274
xchat scrawls text over itself
Last modified: 2008-05-01 11:38:00 EDT
xchat-1.6.3-4 xchat will "uglify" itself on its left column. "Uglifying" means that text becomes corrupted because there are 2 sets of text writing over the same visual space. The cause seems to be in that the the timestamp widget is "colliding" with the names widgets. This makes the left column unusable until you move your mouse over it where it will do a partial redraw. Sorry cant be more technical without coffee.
Haven't seen this. Could you try again with the xchat-1.8 RPMS we have now in Rawhide and see if it still occurs?
I noticed that also and thought it was a bug too. I've been told it is a feature however, so that one can see the timestamps properly. Depending on the location of the separator bar - nicknames and timestamps may collide. the timestamp remains visible with the nick under until you move it or cause it to display. I'm not sure how it should work officially though, I can see ups and downs to both methods. Probably should discuss this with xchat developers to see what their official take is on it.
Ok, I talked to xchat's author, Peter Zelazny and here is his response: > >Is it to do with overlapping timestamp/nicks? It's probably just the: > >max_auto_indent > >is set too low while using a large font. Something like > >/set max_auto_indent 300 > >should fix it (when the next line appears). The default is 256, but old > >versions had a much smaller default (which this user could still have). Yeah that was it. It won't overlap if the max_auto_indent is high enough (num of pixels) and Auto Indent is turned ON. The reason for max_auto_indent was that some networks, with 32-length nicks, were causing it to move too far to the right.
So this is caused intentionally. To modify just set the max_auto_indent variable as described above, and you should be good to go.