Re: [RP] Ratpoison and VMware

[Eduard Werner]

From: Shawn Betts <address@hidden>
Subject: Re: [RP] Ratpoison and VMware (was:Placing and sizing of dialog boxes)
Date: 14 Feb 2002 11:15:33 -0800

> Eduard Werner <address@hidden> writes:
> 
> > Now I have a new problem not present with ratpoison-1.0.0: vmware (2.0) 
> > flickers heavily.
> > The flicker is gone when I switch vmware to fullscreen mode, but fullscreen 
> > mode is
> > extremely slow.
> 
> Yep. I believe I fixed that last night. The same thing was happening
> with mozilla dialog boxes. Update you CVS repo and see if it goes away.
> 
> If that is fixed I think we're ready for some sort of release here :)

It's not, unfortunately. Vmware seems to switch between windowing mode and 
fullscreen mode all the
time which makes it practically unusable. The 1.0.0 is ok.

Edi