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From: RWS@ZERMATT.LCS.MIT.EDU (Robert Scheifler)
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Subject: Drawing onto off-screen pixmaps?
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Date: Thu, 16-Jul-87 08:24:00 EDT
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    Augment the X server so that in addition to the real display tube,
    it will let me open windows on a "virtual display tube" (really just an
    ordinary RAM memory buffer.)

X11 has off-screen pixmaps that you can draw into as a standard feature.