Re: Backing store?

[Havoc Pennington <hp redhat com>]

Luke Scharf <luke vt edu> writes:
> The origional code has something that looks like this:
>
>    SetWindowAttributes attribs;
>    Window wnd;
>    attribs.backing_store = Always;
>    wnd = XCreateWindow(display, DefaultRootWindow(display),
>               0, 0, width, height, 0, 8, InputOutput, visual,
>               CWBackingStore | CWBackPixel, &attribs);

Hmm, I didn't realize that feature existed. ;-)

> Is there any way to cause this to happen in GTK/GDK?

The Xlib Programming Manual basically says "don't use this feature,
you will waste all kinds of RAM," so, with that caveat - you should be
able to just get the X window with gdkx.h and then call
XChangeWindowAttributes().

Havoc