Re: FVWM: Different backgrounds

From: Perry Hutchison <phutchis_at_beaverton.windriver.com>
Date: Thu, 22 May 2003 10:16:43 -0700 (PDT)

> It seems to me that it should be
> the more simple and correct way to have two different (but fixed!)
> backgrounds on different desktops. Yet when I switch desk, the bg get
> redrawn every time, and it takes a little time. Not a lot, just half a
> second or so, but anyway longer than I expected.
> If it is so, it seems to me that there is somewhat a waste of resources.
> Or is it not?

Not really. Most X servers have only one physical display page,
so you have to redraw (at least the exposed parts of) that page
to change the background.
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Received on Thu May 22 2003 - 12:19:14 BST

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