Color Map flashing on Unix VM

Bert Freudenberg bert at isg.cs.uni-magdeburg.de
Mon Jan 29 18:27:47 UTC 2001


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





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