Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!convex!killer!mit-eddie!bloom-beacon!ZERMATT.LCS.MIT.EDU!RWS From: RWS@ZERMATT.LCS.MIT.EDU (Robert Scheifler) Newsgroups: comp.windows.x Subject: Updating a background None window Message-ID: <19880630215800.7.RWS@KILLINGTON.LCS.MIT.EDU> Date: 30 Jun 88 21:58:00 GMT References: <8104@elsie.UUCP> Sender: daemon@bloom-beacon.MIT.EDU Organization: The Internet Lines: 12 Date: 30 Jun 88 18:40:46 GMT From: elsie!ado@cvl.umd.edu (Arthur David Olson) The question on the floor: is there a better way than Unmapping and reMapping to get a transparent window's background corrected after it has been moved? I should have amended: X10 transparent windows were used primarily for two distinct purposes: one was as a rectangular clipping region for output, and the other was for cursor/input control. In X11, GCs provide for general clipping, and InputOnly windows provide for cursor/input control.