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From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: netscape and freebsd (scrolling problem)
Date: 5 Jan 1997 01:06:05 GMT
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Pascal.Gienger@uni-konstanz.de (Pascal Gienger) wrote:

> Netscape heavily uses backing store on the server to be able to rapidly
> redisplay loaded images (that's the reason your XServer-Process grabs so much
> RAM when running Netscape) and to be able to scroll smoothly.
> So it must be a bug with backing store and the XFree-Server.

Interesting then that it only happens if backing store is enabled on a
``when mapped'' base in the server.

-- 
cheers, J"org

joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE
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