Re: FVWM: why was SaveUnders removed?

From: Dominik Vogt <dominik.vogt_at_gmx.de>
Date: Thu, 16 Dec 1999 23:14:01 +0100

On Fri, Oct 22, 1999 at 10:48:19PM -0500, Fuzzy Fox wrote:
> Jon A. Christopher <jon_at_amanda.tamu.edu> wrote:
> >
> > I'm wondering why SaveUnders was removed from FVWM.
>
> While we're on the subject, I'll add that I also miss the other option
> that was removed, "BackingStore". As part of my work, I often find
> myself exporting windows to my screen, over a 64K ISDN connection.
> Believe me, backing store makes quite a difference for these apps, even
> though they are simple xterms! They don't request the backing store
> themselves, though, so having FVWM do it on their behalf is quite nice!
>
> I find myself switching back to fvwm 1.24 whenever I need to run these
> apps over my ISDN connection, then switching back to fvwm2 when
> finished.
>
> Is there some way to add BackingStore back again, especially as a Style
> option? That would be super! There are some windows I don't want to
> enable BackingStore on, and so a Style option for that would be great.

I have just written the new styles BackingStore/BackingStoreOff and
SaveUnder/SaveUnderOff. Can you try these? I don't see a noticeable
difference with or without them since my machine is too fast :)
I've just checked in the code into CVS. Tomorrow's snapshot should
have it.

Bye

Dominik ^_^

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Received on Thu Dec 16 1999 - 20:14:39 GMT

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