On Thu, Jul 24, 2003 at 04:32:59PM -0400, Chris Anderson wrote: > Well, I searched the lists some more and found a reference to starting > XDirectFB using: > > #!/bin/sh > /usr/local/X11R6/bin/XDirectFB -enableRoot -defaultOpacity 200 -ac > -nolisten tcp & sleep 3 && DISPLAY=:0 startkde > > I modified it for both Openbox3 and Gnome. Openbox segfaults (it's > alpha, not surprising) but gnome will actually start. The problem is > that gnome seems to be ghosting the windows (I see the window but half > of it is duplicated to the right of it) and also the color is odd. It > seems like it's almost running in a psuedo grayscale. I tried to take a > screenshot but that caused the entire thing to crash to console and > hardlock.
That's strange. The command line you used includes '-defaultOpacity 200'; try taking that out of the command line. What video card did you say you're using? > > -Chris > > On Thu, 2003-07-24 at 15:52, Chris Anderson wrote: > > Hrmm, I'm thinking I'm not starting XDirectFB actually, the following is > > the `startx` script I use: > > > > userclientrc=$HOME/.xinitrc > > userserverrc=$HOME/.xserverrc If you put the XDirectFB command line in $HOME/.xserverrc or /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xinit/xserverrc, instead of the default X server, you should be able to run XDirectFB with startx. [snip] -- Furrfu! r a k k o at c h a r t e r dot n e t -- Info: To unsubscribe send a mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe directfb-users" as subject.
