d.rast question in 5.0b8

Timothy Reaves treaves at silverfields.com
Sun Oct 22 21:10:50 EDT 2000


    I am running 5.0b8 (as per my subject line :-} ).  I am running
Accelerated X, not XFree86, but that was the problem.  I tuned on the backing
store and it works now.

    Thanks.

"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)




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