Re: GNUstep on remote displays: Missing default on website documentation

[Pablo Di Noto]

Hi,

> > Today I needed again to use GNUstep over an remote X11 display.
> > I had the same issue with blank windows, and searched the mailing list 
> > to review the trick I did last time.
> >
> > defaults write NSGlobalDomain XWindowBufferUseXShm no
> >
> > and that's it. I think this is a pretty common situation which should 
> > be in the website documentation.
>
> Which version of GNUstep (-back) is this? I committed more extensive 
> checks for whether XShm really works or not 2004-11-10, so if it's newer 
> than that, back-art should have detected that XShm wasn't working.

I'm using Debian, with GNUstep packages made by Eric Heintzmann.
It shows gnustep-back with version 0.9.4-2, with ChangeLog dated 18/11/04.

Anyway, I think that I'm using xlib backend. The package has libart as a 
dependency, but when I tried setting default backend to libgnustep-art 
but it complains there is no such bundle.

Are these checks also available for other x11 backends?

Let me know if there is a way to check more specific versions.

Regards,
///Pablo