Re: FVWM: Fvwm crashes Xserver

From: Mark Powell <medp_at_primag.co.uk>
Date: Thu, 18 Jan 1996 13:24:53 +0000 (GMT)

> Date: Wed, 17 Jan 1996 15:03:11 +0000 (GMT)
> From: Travis L Priest <T.L.Priest_at_LaRC.NASA.GOV>
>
> At one point someone here was working on a solution to the problem and
> mentioned tracking it down to a backing store request being made by
> ImageMagick. I've fiddled a little with the code of ImageMagick to
> get it to set backing store requests to 'Never' but it has not helped
> the problem, so that seems like a dead end. I'm not at a loss.

For what it's worth...

The backing store setting in the client is only a recommendation to the
server, it may still decide to use backing store in all cases. The MIT
sample X server has a -bs flag to turn off backing store completely, you
might try that instead if Xsgi has it.

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Mark Powell, Senior Software Engineer <medp_at_primag.co.uk>
Primagraphics Limited, Graphics Court, Melbourn Science Park,
Melbourn, Royston, Herts SG8 6EJ, England. Tel. +44 1763 262041
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Received on Thu Jan 18 1996 - 10:10:46 GMT

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