On Thu, 10 Jun 2004 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> On Wed, 9 Jun 2004, Mark Vojkovich wrote:
>
> > This isn't surprising. Backingstore doesn't guarantee that
> > you won't get expose events. It merely attempts to reduce them
> > by saving occluded bits. When the server switches away to another
> > VT everything in the framebuffer is lost. Backing store allowed
> > it to recover the occluded bits that it saved earlier. I believe
> > this is the expected behavior. People didn't have VT switches back
> > when backing store was designed.
>
> Ok, thanks, but on other systems it works, i.e. even with backingstore
> enabled one does not loose the graphical window content when switching VT
> there and back. So my question is: how can I recover the "usual"
> behaviour?
>
> Regards
> Tomas
Which "other systems" are you refering to? To my knowledge there
is no official X-Window behavior with regards to VT switches.
Mark.
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> > On Wed, 9 Jun 2004 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> >
> > > Hello,
> > > I noticed a problem maybe related to backingstore option with the
> > > release 4.4.0. My XF86Config-4 looks like:
> > > Section "Device"
> > > Identifier "Generic Video Card"
> > > Driver "i810"
> > > # BusID "PCI:0:2:0"
> > > VideoRam 65536
> > > Option "BackingStore" "true"
> > > Option "DisplayInfo" "FALSE"
> > > EndSection
> > >
> > > I have the "famous" i855GM chip, so I had to introduce the displayinfo
> > > option as already mentioned in several posts in this list.
> > >
> > > The backingstore itself works well, i.e. if a graphical window hides below
> > > some other one it still keeps its content, but when switching back to
> > > the text console (Ctrl-Alt-F1) and back, the content is lost. What's funny
> > > is that the content is actually preserved in the part of the window which
> > > was overlapped, the rest (that was on the top when switching there and
> > > back) gets empty.
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