[RP] Re: Ratpoison-devel digest, Vol 1 #248 - 12 msgs

[Ronny Lam]

> > 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.

A workaround is to make vmware a non-managed window by putting it in conf.h:

#define UNMANAGED_WINDOW_LIST "VMware Workstation"


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