With that, do you get "streaks" and "smears" when you drag a window? Hmm.. maybe an idea to turn it on then. How do i do it? RTFM? (man xorg.conf ?) What do you mean with "modern hardware"? tir, 05.10.2004 kl. 03.34 skrev Steffen Kluge: > Hi, > I've just got to ask this, please forgive me if it is only marginally > on-topic for this list. > > Back when I started using X11 (late 80's, Ultrix, X11R3), turning on > save-unders and backing store was an essential performance tuning step, > that drastically improved the perceived "speed" of the desktop (e.g. > disappearing menus exposed the underlying window instantly, without it > having to be re-drawn). > > I've used save-unders and backing store ever since. Which also means > that ever since starting to use RH desktops I had to turn it on > manually, by editing the X command line in [gx]dm.conf. All RH and FC > desktops I've used so far disable backing store (and at the same time > save-unders - the two seem to be inextricably linked) by default. > > Why is that so? I have to admit that with modern hardware the perceived > speed-up is small and may even be entirely based on self-suggestion. > However, I'd like to understand the pros and cons of turning on backing > store with modern X servers and on modern hardware. > > Cheers > Steffen. > > > ______________________________________________________________________ > -- > > Fedora-desktop-list@xxxxxxxxxx > http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-desktop-list -- Fedora-desktop-list@xxxxxxxxxx http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-desktop-list
