Path: utzoo!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!sun-barr!ccut!wnoc-tyo-news!ascwide!ascgw!fgw2!fgw!pfrad!ace!melby From: melby@pappa.yk.fujitsu.co.jp (John Melby) Newsgroups: comp.windows.x Subject: Re: PC X servers / backing store Message-ID: Date: 6 Mar 91 04:56:31 GMT References: <9103032356.AA00215@devnull.Eng.Sun.COM> <952@boing.UUCP> Sender: news@ace.yk.fujitsu.co.jp Organization: Open Systems Dept. Div. 2 Sect. 3, FUJITSU LTD. Lines: 15 Nntp-Posting-Host: pappa In-reply-to: dale@boing.UUCP's message of 4 Mar 91 21:51:55 GMT >If the application is required to maintain the backing pixmap, guess what? >The same resources get chewed too. So what should the application now >do if those resources are chewed up and it has been a good citizen managing >it's own backing store? This is true if pixmaps are being used to back the display. However, if images are used and the server and client are on different machines, this does not necessarily hold. (Of course, if they are linked over a 9600 bps line and the user issues an XFlushDisplay(), that's an entirely different matter....) ----- John B. Melby Fujitsu Limited, Machida, Japan melby%yk.fujitsu.co.jp@uunet