Rene Brun writes: > This has nothing to do with Root. This is not entirely true. ``Well behaved'' X apps are expected to redraw their windows when an expose event occurs. Relying on: > You must activate the backing store option of your window manager. is technically a crutch. However, since the flow of control is usually in the root prompt and there is no way for it to respond to X events when idle, it is an understandable one. Putting the root prompt in one thread and all GUI code in another would let root be ``well behaved'', but at the expense of all the complications threads bring. Regards, -Brett.
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