d.rast question in 5.0b8

[Markus Neteler]

On Fri, Oct 20, 2000 at 08:14:34PM -0700, Eric G . Miller wrote:
> On Fri, Oct 20, 2000 at 10:47:18PM -0400, Timothy Reaves wrote:
> >     When I have open a monitor window, and use the d.rast command, the
> > display window is not updated when some other window overlays it then is
> > moved.  Is this non repainting behavior normal?
> 
> No, it's not normal.  Are you using X 4.0.x ?  Markus Neteler reported
> this problem recently.  Seems there's a config change that might work:
> 
> <excerpt>
> 
> 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
> 
> 
> <end exerpt>
> 
Hi,

finally I managed this not by above suggestion, but by adding
Option "backing-store" "on" to
/etc/X11/XF86config

device section.

Markus