10 seconds to iconify a window!?

[Dameon D. Welch]

I'd like to see this controlled from the command line with vncviewer.
For "slow" connections, this makes a large difference in usability and
bandwidth usage. For "local" connections, it's not such a big deal
to re-request the entire screen.

-- Dameon

On Wed, Nov 25, 1998 at 07:20:32PM +0000, Quentin Stafford-Fraser wrote:

> It wasn't clear from Fletcher's message whether the delay was with the
> X viewer's window, or windows on the server.
> 
> But, yes, the X viewer does request the full screen from the server
> when it is deiconified.  You should be able to stop this, at the
> expense of using more memory at the viewer end, by modifying the
> viewer source as follows.
> 
> In the file x.c at
> about line 227 there's a line:
> 
>     attr.backing_store = WhenMapped;
> 
> If you change that to:
> 
>     attr.backing_store = Always;
> 
> then the local X server should cache the content of the viewer window
> rather more.

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