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From: garfinkel@hpfcso.FC.HP.COM (Dan Garfinkel)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: Re: Asking for Backing Store
Message-ID: <7320015@hpfcso.FC.HP.COM>
Date: 15 Feb 91 18:03:21 GMT
References: <1991Feb5.191434@mathcs.emory.edu>
Organization: Hewlett-Packard, Fort Collins, CO, USA
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> 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
> know that a particular client is connected over a slow network, and want 
> to avoid the exposure traffic, even though the client had no inherent 
> reason to set the attribute.

Backing store is a window attribute.  As such, an application can be written
to change another window's backing store attribute.  It may be a little tricky
to figure out the window ids you want to change, since the window manager may
have reparented the application window.  Give it a try and let us know if
it works!

-Dan