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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
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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.
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> Is there a fix to this problem?
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> Any help would be greatly appreciated.
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> Thanks
>
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> Gustav Braun Center For Imaging Science
> gjb7200@cis.rit.edu Rochester Institute of Technology
> (716) 475-7286 FAX:
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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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| University of Strathclyde |
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