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From: sanders@peyote.cactus.org (Tony Sanders)
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Subject: Re: Asking for Backing Store
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Date: 12 Feb 91 01:24:58 GMT
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In article <1991Feb5.191434@mathcs.emory.edu> km@mathcs.emory.edu writes:
>Is there a way from the outside to get a client to request backing store,
>or at least for a server to think it has. It seems to me that a user may
If the people who wrote your server were nice enough to provided backing
store then it might be the case that they provided a X command line
argument to force backing store.

For you RS/6000 users out there: X -bs -wm  (enable bs and WhenMapped)
Others might try: X -help  or somesuch
to get a usage message and see if it helps.

You may find that forcing backing store makes things slower rather than
faster because it can be faster to repaint simple stuff rather than
store it way all the time when you don't need to.

good luck
-- sanders@peyote.cactus.org
First rule of software:  Throw the first one away.
and so on...
I am not an IBM representative and I speak only for myself.