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From: garyo@THINK.COM (Gary Oberbrunner)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: Strange screen garbage with R4 and gwm
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Date: 9 Jan 90 05:21:13 GMT
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Has anyone else noticed strange things going on in window decorations and
icons with gwm 1.5.1.5 (or any other wm) under X11R4?  I'm running on a
color Sun4/110, and I often see, for example, one of the little corner
bitmaps of the terminal icon just disappears (leaving white (0)).  Or same
for the frame-2d: sometimes some of it will disappear (and the boundaries
of the disappeared section are usually boundaries between, say, the bottom
and corner bitmaps), and no amount of refreshing the screen fixes it; even
redecorating doesn't help.  This usually happens (obviously) when a window
becomes exposed.  Is the server trashing pixmap memory?  Anyone have any
idea what's going on here?

I don't think this is a gwm bug, but I've only been able to quantify it on
gwm's window decorations, so I've posted this to both lists.

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