[GRASS5] Linux KDE: GRASS monitor does not refresh

[Markus Neteler]

Roberto,

thanks!! I got it like that:

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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