Lucio Chiappetti writes: > Having recently moved from Alpha to SuSE Linux (using fvwm as window > manager, but kdm to start X as default with SuSE [9.2]) I've noticed a > funny behaviour in some applications :
> (1) RSI IDL plot windows seems not to have any backing store. When they > are obscured I lose the obscured part, when I move them to another > dekstop page I lose all. > (on Alpha they used to behave like that only after several days the > server was running, like it had exhausted backing store memory) > NB xwininfo returns > Backing Store State: Always > Save Under State: no I've used IDL on Solaris and Linux, and I always had to tell it to use it's own backing store by putting "device,retain=2" into its startup-file. The documentation says the default is to request the server to do it, but that doesn't work. BTW, you have to set it before you open any IDL-windows. Don't know if it has anything to do with FVWM, I don't use other window managers :-) HTH, Rainer -- Visit the official FVWM web page at <URL: http://www.fvwm.org/>. To unsubscribe from the list, send "unsubscribe fvwm" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] To report problems, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
