~Stack~ <[log in to unmask]> writes:

> I have plenty of network bandwidth, but the app will occasionally block
> up. Sometimes it won't redraw after you select something from the drop
> down menu rendering everything in that space unreadable. 

This sounds like the old "backing store" issue.  This is a feature of
the X11 server which tells it to handle redrawing a region after an X11
expose event so the client doesn't have to.  Some clients simply don't
handle expose events so without "backing store" turned on they are
pretty unusable.

-Brett.