On Mar 7, 2007, at 22:55 , Elod Kironsky wrote:

> Bert Freudenberg wrote:
>> On Mar 7, 2007, at 10:57 , Elod Kironsky wrote:
>>
>>> I guess this topic was already discussed, but I have a very bad  
>>> redraw rate of windows in morphic. I
>>> use Fedora Core 6 with 3.9-8 VM and have direct rendering enabled  
>>> (I don't know if it relevant). Now
>>> when I run Squeak, the windows are redrawn very slowly. If you  
>>> ever tried to use Windows without
>>> the proper graphic drivers (e.g. Windows built-in VESA compliant  
>>> driver) with a higher resolution, you
>>> know what I am talking about. Can this anyhow be fixed?
>>
>> Do you mean it's slower than Windows rendering, or generally slow?
>>
>> Make sure the squeak bit depth matches the X11 bit depth. And use  
>> xshm.
>>
>> - Bert -
>>
>>
>>
>>
> If I try to run squeak -xshm <image>, I get a message that -xshm is  
> an unknown option. It is listed though among
> available option when I run squeak -?.

You should read the explanation more carefully ;-)

"-xshm" is an option provided by the X11 display module, it does not  
make sense for the VM itself. So you have to precede it by -vm- 
display-X11 .

> How can I set squeak bit depth?

World menu - appearance.

- Bert -