[GRASS5] Linux KDE: GRASS monitor does not refresh

[Markus Neteler]

Roberto,

mhhh, it's still not perfect. At least the background is not copied into
the monitor any more but the contents (site list crosses) still
dissappear.

I will try your -wm now...

Markus

On Fri, Oct 13, 2000 at 06:18:37PM +0100, Markus Neteler wrote:
> On Fri, Oct 13, 2000 at 04:19:53PM +0200, Roberto Micarelli wrote:
> > Markus Neteler wrote:
> > > 
> > > Hi all,
> > > 
> > > recently I switched to KDE 1.1.2 (SuSe 7) and have the problem,
> > > than the GRASS monitor does not refresh if hidden by another window
> > > and put back into foreground. It remains black.
> > > 
> > > Does anyone have an idea how to fix this?
> > > 
> > > Thanks!
> > > 
> > >  Markus
> > 
> > It seems exposure events not being generated.
> > One trivial way could be to enable backing-store in the X server
> > (more memory needed by X)
> > 
> > In /etc/X11/xdm/Xserver
> > 
> > change a line like this
> > 
> > :0 local /usr/X11R6/bin/X
> > 
> > to
> > 
> > :0 local /usr/X11R6/bin/X -wm
> 
> The "backing-store" thing was the right idea. I had to
> add 
>   Option        "backingstore" "on"
> 
> to the 
>   Section "Device"
> 
> of /etc/X11/XF86Config as I am using Xfree4. Now it works o.k.
> 
> Thanks a lot
> 
>  Markus
> 


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