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From: swick@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Ralph R. Swick)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: Re: Can I get the background_pixmap of a window?
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Date: 1 Aug 88 13:32:15 GMT
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No.  The client is permitted to free the pixmap after creating the
window and the server implementation is free to replicate the pixmap
in a hardware-optimized fashion.  Thus, there is no guarantee that
the original resource still exists.