What's wrong with backing store?

[Kyrre Ness Sjobak]

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.
> 
> 
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