I am trying to isolate and/or work around a bug in the R statistics software (r-project.org), and the bug seems to depend on how many windows are managed by a tiling layout, regardless of how many windows are in a float layout. I am using R 2.14.2 and Xmonad 0.9.2. Steps to reproduce: $ R
dev.new() ; plot(1, main='plot 1') dev.new() ; plot(1, main='plot 2') dev.new() ; plot(1, main='plot 3') # plot 2 is now blank # floating any of the plot windows and then resizing the tiled layout causes # all plot windows to draw correctly dev.new() ; plot(4, main='plot 4') # now plot 3 is blank
Opening terminals does not cause problems, so I do not think the problem can be related to the size of the tiled window, only to the number of tiled plot windows. Any time there are more than two tiled plot windows, at most two will draw. The number of floating plot windows does not matter, which puzzles me. I cannot find any difference using xprop between a floating and tiled window. I would like to file an appropriate bug report with R or create a workaround in my Xmonad configuration that still allows me to tile the windows. Is there an important property that distinguishes tiled and floating windows from the perspective of X, rather than Xmonad? Thank you.