Linux, 12/22 M13 tip of tree, mozilla build. I was trying to set up a profile for mail news on my home machine. Typing in server names, users names, etc. I would only ever see the first 1 or two characters typed. Dragging an xterm or some other app window over the dialog would cause the entire text to display.

Account Manager -> Alec.

editor/paint bug -> buster

linux-only paint bug. assigned to kin, cc akkana and pav.

setting this to m14

Accepting bug.

received some additional data on just how annoying this on is -- the perception that the editor isn't working due to the lack of visual feedback -- so, I'm setting this one back to m13.

The same behavior happens in HTTP password authentication dialogs; so this may be not just a MailNews problem. Eg: point your browser to http://www.dmoz.org Click on "Editor Login" Password dialog comes up, where only first character of name and password are displayed.

*** Bug 22919 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

The damage rects are being recorded by each nsWindow. The problem seems to be that the Gtk implementation of nsWindow::Update() only updates it's associated native window. The view manager assumes that updating a window will also force/flush any pending updates for child windows too.

Checked in fix: mozilla/widget/src/gtk/nsWindow.cpp revision 1.227 r=blizzard@redhat.com,pavlov@netscape.com

This problem was noted in bug 14845, which was reopened. 14845 is now marked as depends on this bug and that bug should be retested when this is tested.

Using linux build 2000011313m13 this is working OK. I tested this scenario along with the scenario in 14845 and all text field entries are working. Just to double check, syd could you please confirm yours is fixed too.

Per Esther's claim that this bug is fixed, I am verifying this bug. If the problem occurs again then please reopen.