Russell Allen <russell.allen at firebirdmedia.com> wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I've been trying to get a Nebraska server up and running on a FreeBSD
> box.  I'm running a 3.0 image.
> 
> The server starts up fine, but the world that it is serving is only
> about 40x40 pixels - which is a little to small to work with :)

Yes.  I mean to fix this for real, one of these days, precisely because
I want to use Nebraska on headless images.  With Nebraska, the
properties of the virtual display are suddenly important!  They used to
not matter at all, and so there is a dumb hard-coded value for the
display size.

A fast fix is to look in sqXWindow.c for ioScreenSize().  The relevant
line is something like:

  if (!isConnectedToXServer)
    return ((64 << 16) | 64);

Change the 64's to a nicer size.

The good fix is to allow Squeak to resize this; there is a primitve for
this already, and one just needs to implement it.



> On a related note, is it possible anymore to build a unix vm on a
> machine without the X11 libraries?

It should be, but that doesn't mean that it is.  Yay configure -- it
automatically does...  something.  Run it and see what happens :)



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