[comp.windows.x] Problem with client xsetroot

jturmell@hawk.ulowell.edu (Jeff Turmelle) (02/09/89)

	I am running X11 R3 on a GPX running Ultrix.  When I use the 
     xsetroot -bitmap for a full screen bitmap (such as fullmoon.gpx, etc.)
     the bitmap will never come up.  However, if I kill the window manager
     (uwm) it will come up within a minute or so.  Also, in order to kill
     the window manager, I have to remote login because all processing
     comes to a complete halt.  Nothing else on the screen runs while I
     am waiting for the bitmap to come up.
	Once the window manager is killed, and the bitmap comes up, I restore
     the window manager, and everything works great from then on...

	Is this a known bug, or has anyone had this problem before (and 
     solved it ?).

	Thanks in advance for any help anyone can give me.

	Jeff Turmelle
	jturmell@hawk.ulowell.edu

yba@sword.bellcore.com (Mark Levine) (02/10/89)

In article <11629@swan.ulowell.edu> jturmell@hawk.ulowell.edu (Jeff Turmelle) writes:
>
>	I am running X11 R3 on a GPX running Ultrix.  When I use the 
>     xsetroot -bitmap for a full screen bitmap (such as fullmoon.gpx, etc.)
>     the bitmap will never come up.  However, if I kill the window manager
>     (uwm) it will come up within a minute or so.  Also, in order to kill

I have found with uwm running that I can tile the root window (using 'xroot'),
but that it _does_ lock up the server completely for several _minutes_.  After
that all function is restored.  I guess the time is spent making an in-core
8-bit deep pixmap.  In any case, it works with uwm for me under R3 on the GPX.

Note that the DECwindows server will _not_ tile the same fullmoon (".dmp.Z) --
it will report insufficient resources and give up.

I got the xpix/xroot images from Mark Eichin at Project Athena.  What is the
source of "fullmoon.gpx" here?  Is anyone else trying large bitmaps with
DECwindows?