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- From: drand@spinner.osf.org (Douglas S. Rand)
- Subject: Re: how to get `xnews' to heed SaveUnder request?
- In-Reply-To: kenc@jiminy.viewlogic.com's message of 28 Dec 92 23:37:23 GMT
- Message-ID: <DRAND.92Dec29171830@spinner.osf.org>
- Sender: news@osf.org (USENET News System)
- Organization: Open Software Foundation
- References: <1992Dec28.233723.15289@viewlogic.com>
- Date: 29 Dec 92 17:18:30
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- In article <1992Dec28.233723.15289@viewlogic.com> kenc@jiminy.viewlogic.com (Kenneth H. Cox) writes:
-
- Hi, I'm running OpenWindows 3.0, and am having the problem
- that `xnews' isn't heeding my application's request for SaveUnders
- in the popup menus, with the result that the popup menus are SLOW.
-
- Xnews appears to be saving under the popup menus where those menus
- obscure other windows, but not where they obscure the window to which
- the menus are attached! Yikes! The menu windows have 'override_redirect'
- and 'save_under' set on them.
-
- Just a point to remember, save_under and backing_store are hints
- to the server about the intended uses of windows. The server is
- free to ignore any of these hints and therefore the behavior isn't,
- strictly speaking, a bug :) . On the other hand, I would expect
- that save_under would either always be honored or not, with the
- possible exception of very large windows or tight memory.
-
- You might make sure that those bits are really set. A tool such
- as xwininfo will do a query and print out the information for
- you. You might also get valuable info by using xprop.
-
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