UNIX downloads? (with Windows answers)

Steve Gilbert steven.l.gilbert at lmco.com
Mon Apr 9 18:42:49 UTC 2001



Bert Freudenberg wrote:
> 
> On Fri, 6 Apr 2001, Steve Gilbert wrote:
> 
> > The ears on the Squeak mouse are squared on just the inside edge and
> > the colors are off.  It seems to be missing the red and so all of the
> > screens are blues, aquas, and greens. If I go to the local Xterm on
> > the Unix server I get a slightly different color rendering, this time
> > everything has a black bias to it like backgrounds and things.
> 
> What happens if you switch the display depth (in world menu - appearance)?

The colors basically stay the same, the mouse ears stay squared, and the
characters become readable once I get to a 32 bit display depth, less
than that and all of the text is so fuzzy that I can't hardly read it.

> 
> > Oh, and one other thing, if I start to work in say a System Browser I
> > begin to get messages to the stdout/stderr window of:
> >
> > input event buffer overrun
> 
> That happens on to slow or to fast systems ;^)
> 
> A temporary fix is to increase the event buffer size in sqXWindow.h. Also,
> someone (Tim?) wrote about a fix that drops old mouse move events, which
> would be a Good Thing on a slow machine ...
> 
> -- Bert





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