Xref: utzoo comp.os.vms:27198 comp.windows.x:23631 Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!sdd.hp.com!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!ames!sgi!shinobu!odin!eukanuba.wpd.sgi.com!mikey From: mikey@eukanuba.wpd.sgi.com (Mike Yang) Newsgroups: comp.os.vms,comp.windows.x Subject: Re: DECW$WINMGR Weirdness Message-ID: <9518@odin.corp.sgi.com> Date: 26 Jun 90 21:09:09 GMT References: Sender: news@odin.corp.sgi.com Reply-To: mikey@wpd.sgi.com Organization: Silicon Graphics, Inc. Lines: 20 In article , jym@eris.berkeley.edu (Jym Dyer) writes: |> |T|here's a different problem, which may not be related, but |> `-' again, it happens only with DECW$WINMGR, not with HPWM. |> I compiled xsetroot and the Xmu stuff. Then I ran xsetroot |> to put a bitmap in my background. Under HPWM it shows up |> right away; but under DECW$WINMGR it only shows up after I |> lift a window off of the background. Does *that* one sound |> familiar to anyone? The problem is that the DEC window manager places a full-screen, pseudo-root window over the real root window. This pseudo-root window has background set to ParentRelative, but it doesn't automatically change when xsetroot changes the real root window's background. The solution is to use xrefresh after using xsetroot. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Mike Yang Silicon Graphics, Inc. mikey@wpd.sgi.com 415/335-1786 decwrl!sgi!wpd!mikey