On Sat, 2012-05-19 at 23:00 +0100, Glynn Clements wrote: > I've encountered code which uses a background pixmap to implement a > persistent screen, and drawing to the pixmap then calling XClearWindow > (without calling XSetWindowBackgroundPixmap in between) results in the > updated pixmap contents appearing in the window. So it appears to use > reference counting or similar.
Any code which does this is being inadvisably friendly with the
implementation. From the protocol spec:
Subsequent drawing into the background or border pixmap has an
undefined effect on the window state. The server might or might
not make a copy of the pixmap.
The sample implementation (at least at the dix level) has always done
the current behaviour of taking a reference on the pixmap, but the
sample implementation is not the only X server ever written.
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