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From: swick@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Ralph R. Swick)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: Re: X10 [and generic X application] bug
Message-ID: <8805031334.AA12123@LYRE.MIT.EDU>
Date: 3 May 88 13:34:13 GMT
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If a client intends to do something else for a long period of time
(such as exit) other than read an event from the server, it probably
wants to use XFlush() after the last drawing request.  XCloseDisplay()
discards any requests that may still be in the Xlib output buffer.