From: klee@synoptics.com (Ken Lee)
Subject: Re: DEC pixmap size
Reply-To: klee@synoptics.com
Organization: SynOptics Communications, Santa Clara CA
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In article 1964@igd.fhg.de, haase@igd.fhg.de (Helmut Haase (Goebel)) writes:
>If I try to create a pixmap larger than the size of my screen the program
>will terminate displaying the message:
>
>X Error:  BadAlloc - insufficient resources

Many X servers supporting graphics accelerators do not allow the creation
of pixmaps exeeding the size of the screen.  One workaround is to create
several smaller pixmaps and add the results.

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Ken Lee, klee@synoptics.com
