Re: Odd Linux behavior

[Michael Torrie <torriem gmail com>]

Lindley M French wrote:
> When a window is scrolled into view as far as the hbox is concerned,
> gdk_window_process_events() works as expected even if the entire GUI
> is minimized. But when a window is *not* scrolled into view, it
> doesn't----the expose handler is never called.

The expose event is really an  X11 event.  And X11 only generates expose
events for X windows that are actually exposed.  Hence if the window is
not scrolled into view, it's never exposed, from X's point of view.  Or
maybe I'm not understanding your problem.