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IDL and the SGI window manager [message #7064]

Mon, 23 September 1996 00:00

Gus Braun
Messages: 1
Registered: September 1996

Junior Member

Hi,

I am running IDL on an Silicon Graphics system (SGI) and I am having a
problem with the window manager refreshing the IDL graphics windows.
For example, when I create a graph with the plot command I get an IDL
window. If another window moves in front of the IDL window the graphics
get erased. When the IDL window is brought to the front the graphics do
not get refreshed.

Is there a fix to this problem?

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks

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Re: IDL and the SGI window manager [message #7144 is a reply to message #7064]

Wed, 25 September 1996 00:00

Graeme K Harkness
Messages: 3
Registered: August 1996

Junior Member

Gus Braun wrote:
> I am running IDL on an Silicon Graphics system (SGI) and I am having a
> problem with the window manager refreshing the IDL graphics windows.
> For example, when I create a graph with the plot command I get an IDL
> window. If another window moves in front of the IDL window the graphics
> get erased. When the IDL window is brought to the front the graphics do
> not get refreshed.
>
> Is there a fix to this problem?
>
> Any help would be greatly appreciated.
>
> Thanks
>
> ------------------------------------------------------------ ----
> Gustav Braun Center For Imaging Science
> gjb7200@cis.rit.edu Rochester Institute of Technology
> (716) 475-7286 FAX:
> ------------------------------------------------------------ ----

We had the same problem a while back. I put the following in my
.Xdefaults file

idl.retain: 2

It instructs IDL to keep a pixmap of the windows rather than relying
on the Xserver to do it. It seems to work fine.

Graeme

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