Thu, 18 January 1996, Mark Powell <medp_at_primag.co.uk> wrote:
> > Date: Wed, 17 Jan 1996 15:03:11 +0000 (GMT)
> > From: Travis L Priest <T.L.Priest_at_LaRC.NASA.GOV>
> >
> > At one point someone here was working on a solution to the problem and
> > mentioned tracking it down to a backing store request being made by
> > ImageMagick. I've fiddled a little with the code of ImageMagick to
> > get it to set backing store requests to 'Never' but it has not helped
> > the problem, so that seems like a dead end. I'm not at a loss.
>
> For what it's worth...
>
> The backing store setting in the client is only a recommendation to the
> server, it may still decide to use backing store in all cases. The MIT
> sample X server has a -bs flag to turn off backing store completely, you
> might try that instead if Xsgi has it.
I tripped on the -bs option late yesterday afternoon, and it did
indeed fix the problem. It didn't occur to me that client backing
store requests were a recommendation and not a demand of the server.
Thanks.
Travis
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Received on Thu Jan 18 1996 - 10:16:01 GMT