[XForms] Ghost popup menu behavior.

Jean-Marc Lasgouttes Jean-Marc.Lasgouttes at inria.fr
Wed Dec 15 03:53:31 EST 2004


>>>>> "d" ==   <dadembro at rockwellcollins.com> writes:

d> To subscribers of the xforms list I recently noticed strange
d> behavior from menu popups which leave behind a ghost menu (like the
d> display does not get redrawn). I can also duplicate the behavior
d> with the pup.c demo program I will use as an example.

This happens because xforms try to use a backing store, and this is
disabled by default on newer linux setup of X Window. I tried to see
how to avoid it, but I failed miserably.

If you start your X server with the +bs option, things should work
again.

JMarc



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