Linux 2.3 problems

Marcus Denker marcus at ira.uka.de
Wed Mar 3 21:47:50 UTC 1999


On Wed, Mar 03, 1999 at 03:50:21PM -0500, Richard L. Peskin wrote:
> I have run into the following problems with the Linux (RH 5.2) version of
> Squeak2.3.
> 
> 1. The "Normal" cursor, the scroll bar between browser panes, the menu icon
> (scroll region), adn other widgets are not clear. That is, details are not
> showing up. For example if you move the cursor from the X window background
> into Squeak, the "arrow" details get fuzzy. This occurs with X running on
> the system console, but not with a remote X server.
>
Bert Freudenberg posted a fix to the list on Tue, 2 Feb 1999:

|Subject: [BUG,FIX] CursorWithMask on X
|
|I really wanted to have that nice CursorWithMask but it showed only as a
|black blob - stColorBlack and stColorWhite were not initialized with RGB
|triplets (which are needed for 16/32 bpp visuals). A diff is attached.


> 2. More important, the "default" object memory allocation is too small
> (5m). While this allocation can be changed from the command line (-memory
> option), how can the default be changed?
> 

|Date: Mon, 1 Mar 1999 13:27:33 +0100 (MET)
|From: Ian Piumarta <Ian.Piumarta at inria.fr>                                      
|To: markus_kohler at hp.com
|Subject: Re: Installation help needed (Solaris, Linux)                          
|Cc: squeak at cs.uiuc.edu
|
|> The default memory size that Squeak allocates is a bit low for the
|> newest version ( we shoudl change that).
|
|sqXWindow.c(91): #define DefaultHeapSize (20*1024*1024)  /* 20 megabytes */
|

or: set the environment-variable SQUEAK_MEMORY, like (bash):
export SQEUAK_MEMORY=20m

  Marcus


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