5.1 Creating and Freeing Pixmaps

Pixmaps can only be used on the screen on which they were created. Pixmaps are off-screen resources that are used for various operations, for example, defining cursors as tiling patterns or as the source for certain raster operations. Most graphics requests can operate either on a window or on a pixmap. A bitmap is a single bit-plane pixmap.

To create a pixmap of a given size, use XCreatePixmap().

To free all storage associated with a specified pixmap, use XFreePixmap().

Next: Creating, Recoloring, and Freeing Cursors

---

Christophe Tronche, [email protected]