GdkPixbuf/X/backingstore interaction

Owen Taylor otaylor at redhat.com
Wed Jan 5 12:19:38 PST 2005


On Wed, 2005-01-05 at 14:43 -0500, Carl Nygard wrote:
> This may not be the proper list, but perhaps someone knows what's up.
> I've got an app that (due to institutional inertia) has an unholy mix of
> X/Motif under a Zaf layer with Gdk::Pixbuf rendering rasters.  So yeah,
> who knows where the problem is coming from.
> 
> But the problem:  when a X DrawingArea widget is obscured by any other
> window, the Gdk::Pixbuf doesn't render to that area obscured by the
> other window.  backing-store is turned on, so vector/polygon rendering
> using regular Xlib function calls are displayed when the window is
> moved.

What do you mean by Gdk::Pixbuf? What particular library, function
call, etc?

GdkPixbuf in current versions of GTK+ is just a bundle of image bits
and doesn't do any drawing.

					Owen

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