On Tue, 2009-04-07 at 16:27 -0400, Patrick O'Donnell wrote: > > >There shouldn't be any breakage of compatibility in old old apps. ... > > Perhaps not compatibility, strictly speaking, but we're going to miss > our old friends backing store and save unders. Their demise feels > like a breakage of compatibility, as the X servers we've used have all > had reasonably aggressive offering of the optimizations (til now). > (We have been strongly depending on their existence, incorrectly.) > One of our applications has a very expensive redraw cycle that we now > have to decide how we are going to manage when backing store is not > being supplied.
If you can enable compositing (even just xcompmgr -a), that might be the simplest solution. Or, someone who cares about backing store could work on improving the new implementation layered on top of composite... -- Earthling Michel Dänzer | http://www.vmware.com Libre software enthusiast | Debian, X and DRI developer _______________________________________________ xorg mailing list xorg@lists.freedesktop.org http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/xorg