[GRASSLIST:1242] Re: Word of thanks and a question

[Venkatesh Raghavan]

Hi,

The fix suggested by Eric and Markus worked.
Had to add the option to my /etc/X11/XF86Config-4
file.

Markus Neteler wrote:

> KDE-Example: If you draw a raster map, cover the monitor partly with a
>     window, run d.erase and move away the covering window, you will find
parts
>     of the old map in the covered window corner. I guess it is an X 4.0.1
>     problem (as X 3.3.6 was o.k.).
>

Did not have that problem even with X 4.0.1.
Runing d.erase erased the entire monitor.

Thanks for the tip.

Raghavan
Osaka City University

"Eric G . Miller" wrote:

> On Fri, Dec 08, 2000 at 03:29:46PM +0000, Markus Neteler wrote:
> > are you sure that you didn't change the KDE from GRASS5beta8 times
> > to now? Actually I face the same problem in KDE only, using fvwm2
> > it is o.k.
> > Please see the FAQ for possible help:
> > http://www.geog.uni-hannover.de/grass/faq/index.html#problems
> > -> GRASS Monitor does not repaint when is was hidden by another window
> >
> > My problem is reduced by that, but not fully fixed for KDE. Seems
> > to be a KDE related problem (I have KDE 1.x, not tested 2.x yet).
>
> Okay, I downloaded/installed KDE 2.0 from Debian's Woody (got to love
> that!) and I don't see this problem.  So it must be fixed in newer
> versions of KDE (or Debian does something different -- but I don't think
> so in regards to KDE).
>
> --
> Eric G. Miller <egm2 at jps.net>