This is the mail archive of the
cygwin-xfree@cygwin.com
mailing list for the Cygwin XFree86 project.
Re: X11 backing store
- From: Hans Werner Strube <strube at physik3 dot gwdg dot de>
- To: huntharo at msu dot edu
- Cc: cygwin-xfree at cygwin dot com
- Date: Wed, 24 Jul 2002 09:17:29 +0200 (MET DST)
- Subject: Re: X11 backing store
- Reply-to: cygwin-xfree at cygwin dot com
> From huntharo@msu.edu Tue Jul 23 20:23:54 2002
> Cygwin/XFree86 has support for backing store, but it is not enabled by
> default. You have to pass the ``+bs'' parameter to XWin.exe to enable
> backing store support:
>
> XWin +bs
I have tried this before but forgot mentioning it. For the program considered
(plotting a moving bar diagram) this works, but only in a part of the window.
Beside this, the whole X screen behaves strangely, with changes (e.g., the
WM menu) appearing ghostlike only in the surrounding of the mouse pointer.
> I have seen various posting that seem to indicate that backing store
> support is not trusted anymore... perhaps it is no longer being
> maintained.
Well, one should not rely too much on backing store, but on other servers,
it works sufficiently well.