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[Joris van der Hoeven <address@hidden>]

On Wed, 10 Sep 2003, Norbert Nemec wrote:
> I don't think so. I have a fast machine with much memory. Anyway, I can 
> still
> see that the TeXmacs window has to be redrawn at every desktop-switch.
> Obviously, the window is not buffered.
>
> As far as I know from programming the Xlib a long time ago, there is a 
> simple
> option to decide whether a window gets a background buffer or not. Using 
> such
> a buffer might boost the screen diplay of TeXmacs quite a lot. 
> Unfortunately,
> the user can't do much about this. It would have to be done in the source
> code.

Please take a look at line 115 of src/Window/X/x_window.cpp.
I tried replacing the existing code by

  setattr.save_under       = True;
  setattr.backing_store    = Always;

but nor "Save under" nor "Backing store" seem to work...
Do you have any ideas?

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