Re: Refreshing the background image.

[Havoc Pennington <hp redhat com>]

"M.N.S.S.K.Pavan Kumar" <pavan gdit iiit net> writes:
> 	I have already posted this question one day before. I did not get
> any answer, please help me with this. 
> 	I am writing a small test program which draws a pixmap on the root
> window of the desktop and moves it ( something like a little animation ).
> Now the problem is, when I draw the image and move it, it leaves marks on
> the previous position where it is drawn and it doesnot get updated.
> 	Here I think double buffering doesnot help. So I am drawing on to
> the root window directly and updating the previously drawn area with a
> copy of the original background. But this is not working.Can any one help
> me by saying how to refresh the desktop after drawing a pixmap.
> 

XClearArea() (gdk_window_clear()) will clear the root window back to
its normal state.

Havoc