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.