Re: Background flashes when splitting windows

Andrej Mitrovich wrote:

> I'm running GVim 7.3 on an XP machine.
>
> I have this problem where Vim quickly flashes a bright background color
> whenever I split or close Vim's windows. It doesn't seem to be related to
> any plugins, I can recreate the behavior without any plugins installed.
>
> Here's two snapshots:
> http://i.imgur.com/8yokX.jpg
> http://i.imgur.com/er0TD.jpg
>
> My system specs:
> Athlon II X4, Quad Core @ 2.6 Ghz
> 3 Gb, 800Mhz DDR2 Ram
> GeForce 9600GT, 512Mb
>
> It almost looks like Vim is redrawing the background one character space at
> a time (I'm not familiar with how Vim does its window drawing), but first
> it's painting the background in a light color before drawing the dark color
> again. If I hold my key which toggles between opening/closing another Vim
> window, I can see the white area flashing from the top to the bottom (it
> looks exactly like a video footage of a CRT monitor, where you can clearly
> see how the monitor is refreshing the screen).
>
> It also looks like splitting the window vertically reproduces this behavior
> every time, but splitting it horizontally the flickering happens less often.
>
> Has anyone had this behavior while using Vim? Perhaps it's a driver issue,
> although I haven't been able to recreate this behavior in other
> applications.

Does it still happen after ":colors default" ?

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