Sven, > Well, you are obviously suffering from some fundamental > misunderstandings. Don't worry though, the X rendering concept is not > easy to understand and GTK+/GDK as well as all the nifty new X > extensions add quite some complexity. An understatement! :-) OK. I'm going to have to go and think about all this now. Many thanks to you (and John) for the advice. Regards -- David J. Singer doc@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx "Time flies like an arrow, fruit flies like a banana" _______________________________________________ gtk-list@xxxxxxxxx http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gtk-list