[GRASSLIST:1238] Re: Word of thanks and a question

[Eric G . Miller]

On Fri, Dec 08, 2000 at 05:59:43PM +0900, Venkatesh Raghavan wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> Thanks to the GRASS develpment team for bring out
> the Grass5-b10 with several enhancements and bugfixes.
> 
> The binary is working without problem on my machine
> running Mandrake Linux7.2. Coming to the question now,
> is there a way to avoid the GRASS graphics monitor getting
> erased by the tcl/tk panels or terminal windows. The may
> not be a problem due to GRASS (perhaps to do with my KDE
> window manager setting), but everytime other windows
> or tcl/tk panels appear in the foreground over the GRASS
> monitor the area of overlap on the GRASS monitor gets erased.
> I need to bring the GRASS monitor to the foreground and use
> the d.mon select=Xx which refreshes the monitor.
> 
> GRASS5beta8 working on other machines (Redhat6.0 and Slackware7.0)
> dont seem to have this problem.

Difference is X 3.3.6 => X 4.0.1, I think.  Try putting this in
/etc/X11/XF86Config (or wherever it's stored on Mandrake).

Section "Device"
	...
	...
        Option "backingstore" "on"
EndSection

-- 
Eric G. Miller <egm2 at jps.net>