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Re: No refresh for IDL X-windows under XFree86 [message #22257]

Thu, 26 October 2000 22:27

dirk
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Registered: March 1998

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In article <39F8EACD.D21EBE5D@astro.princeton.edu>,
David V Bowen <dvb@astro.princeton.edu> wrote:
> I've just upgraded my laptop to RedHat 7.0 which is running the new
> XFree86 v4 and am using my previous installation of IDL 5.3 (linux
> x86). I notice, however, that after using IDL to plot something in one
> of its x-windows, if I bring some _other_ window to the front,
> covering IDL's x-window, then remove it, IDL's window doesn't
> refresh. In other words, the area previously covered by any other
> window just stays black.

Try this:
In your .Xresources file put the in the following piece of text

# IDL backing store
idl.retain: 2

That ought to tell the X window manager to handle the screen updating,
instead of letting IDL do it (which it doesn't).

Cheers, Dirk

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