Re: [RP] Ratpoison and VMware

[Chris Gray]

On Fri, Feb 15, 2002 at 01:08:51PM +0100, Eduard Werner wrote:
> > 
> > > 
> > > 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.
> > 
> > I installed vmware workstation 3.0. I don't have a serial number to
> > unlock it, so I just get the startup window. It works fine as far as I
> > can tell. At what point does it start to flicker?
> 
> I'm still using 2.0. But the flickering starts after booting the virtual 
> machine,
> the startup window is ok.

Here is a patch that fixes the flickering in squeak for me.  I can't run
VMWare as I don't have Windows, but I imagine that this is the same
problem.

I'm sorry that most of the patch is cosmetic, but it should be easy to
see the important part.

Cheers,
Chris

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