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- From: gel@sys.uea.ac.uk (Gareth Lee)
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- Subject: Re: RootWindow Bug under DEC Window Manager
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- Date: 14 Aug 92 11:41:25 GMT
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- clinton@crusader.ecn.uoknor.edu (Trool the Red Adept) writes:
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- > Has anyone else noticed that under dxwm when you use a program such as
- >Xphoon, Xv, Xsetroot or anything that sets the background pixmap of the root
- >window that the root window does not immediately redraw as it should and does
- >under other window managers such as twm. More importantly, has anyone
- >discovered a fix for this problem.
- > Thanx,
- > Clinton
-
- I can offer a botch rather than a fix.
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- Try running the x utility 'xrefresh' immediately after changing the background
- to force a full screen refresh. This is available within the standard ultrix
- distribution in one of the unsupported subsets. The process can be automated
- using shell scripts or aliases,
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- ie. alias Xsetroot 'Xsetroot \!*; /usr/bin/X11/xrefresh'
-
- Gareth Lee,
- Speech and Pattern Processing Group
- University of East Anglia,
- UK.
-