Why does Xvfb not support the backing store?

[Roland Mainz]

Irek Szczesniak wrote:
> I am running an X server (X.Org v. 6.8.1 on GNU/Linux Fedora Core 3,
> 2.6.10-1.770_FC3smp, i686) with backing store capability turned on
> (the "+bs" option used when starting the server).  Moreover, I am
> forcing the default backing store of all windows to be WhenMapped (the
> "-wm" option used when starting the server).  The server is run with
> this command:
[snip]
> QUESTION: why does Xvfb not use the backing store even though I
> request it?

Likely because Xvfb doesn't call the neccesary hooks to setup backing
store. If I remember it correctly SuSE Linux has a patch for that in
their RPMs... sndirsch may be able to answer the question...

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Bye,
Roland

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