On Mon, Sep 19, 2011 at 1:03 PM, Patrick O'Donnell <[email protected]> wrote: >>Date: Mon, 19 Sep 2011 10:20:12 -0500 >>From: Doug Kuvaas <[email protected]> >> >>I posted to this list earlier about not getting color in 8 bit depth >>using the intel driver. After some assistance I was able to get 8 bit >>color to show in color. However, now the backing store does not seem >>to work, so the application I am attempting to run leaves blank areas >>on the display whenever a menu or other window covers that area. >>xdpyinfo does report that the backing store is on. > > We, too, ran afoul of this change. I turns out, though, that X > clients were never allowed to presume the server would provide backing > store (or save unders). Even if the server announced that it > supported backing store, it was allowed, if resources became tight, to > refuse to provide it for any window that asked. > > It sounds like the client you're attempting to run is presuming upon > the backing store and is ignoring the expose events that are being > generated. This, unfortunately, is broken behavior. > > - Patrick >
I thought the -wm option was supposed to force all windows to use the WhenMapped backing store? Were you able to come up with a work-around? _______________________________________________ [email protected]: X.Org support Archives: http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/xorg Info: http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/xorg Your subscription address: [email protected]
