Color Map flashing on Unix VM

William Barnett-Lewis wlewis at mailbag.com
Tue Jan 30 00:45:23 UTC 2001


Yep, it works right under twm. Foo. I really liked the open look "look"
- it fits my IPX quite well for some funny reason... 

Time to go looking for a new window manager. Thanks for all your help.

William


William Barnett-Lewis wrote:
> 
> I'm using OLVWM right now. I'll have to try something else and see what
> happens. I think twm comes default, but I can download a bunch of others
> and find one that doesnt't grab the mouse that way. Thanks for the hint.
> 
> Bert Freudenberg wrote:
> >
> > On Mon, 29 Jan 2001, William Barnett-Lewis wrote:
> >
> > > Bert Freudenberg wrote:
> > > >
> > > > On Mon, 29 Jan 2001, William Barnett-Lewis wrote:
> > > >
> > > > > Just installed Squeak 2.7 on my Sun IPX under NetBSD 1.5. It has the
> > > > > standard 8bit GX framebuffer installed with a greyscale monitor
> > > > > attached. On startup and whenever I try to do anything, I get a very bad
> > > > > level of color map flashing.
> > > >
> > > > What kind of flashing do you experience? It's normal that Squeak installs
> > > > its own color map when the mouse enters the window. As long as you do not
> > > > move the mouse outside, there should be no flashing.
> > >
> > > If that were all, I'd understand it. No, this flashing happens on any
> > > mouse movement or clicks. I even put squeak into full screen mode and
> > > the flashing still occurs on every click.
> >
> > I can only imagine your window manager takes the focus from Squeak
> > everytime you click ... What WM do you use? Could you try another one?
> >
> > -- Bert
> 
> William
> 
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