[plug] vid card

[Mike Holland]

On Tue, 16 Jun 1998, Peter Caffin wrote:

> Sad, innit ;). I'll eventually look into it properly. I wouldn't be
> surprised if it was just a natty feature of olvwm I need to tweak.

OpenLook is so passé - like 5 years.  Get with it!

> > Try the 'vertical size' knob on your monitor :)
> 
> Nope. Not that sort of problem. The text appears at the bottom of the

Damn. would have made a good story to tell.

> icon (with the background space where the icon picture ought to appear),
> but, with program-dependent exceptions, the actual picture doesn't.

hmm... sounds like an Xpm problem?

> Another problem (fixed by dropping back to 8bpp) is with xcpustate
> displaying everything as black (normally, of course, you've got the
> hash-style shading and black and white).

That program doesnt even respond to a 'close' request. And its ugly.
 
> In the end, 16bpp isn't really a high priority for me right now. So, I
> just leave it at 8bpp.

At least you can run xfishtank then.
 

Mike Holland <mike at golden.wattle.id.au>            Perth, Australia.
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