Re: Emacs's set-frame-size can not work well with gnome-shell?

[martin rudalics]

> I was asking about the best-case scenario here. Like, is there hope for 
persistent popups that don't flicker after every input.

If we are able to identify the cause for the flicker first.  I suppose
with "input" you mean "resizing" and not plain updating of its text.

> Scrollbars and mode lines aren't a problem because they're not needed
> in a popup. But visibility cycling still created flickering, even
> without them, in the Lucid build.


You mean the Lucid build is not any better in this regard than a GTK
build making the frame invisible, resizing it and making it visible
again?

martin