On Tuesday, September 2, 2003, at 12:44 PM, Stan Sanderson wrote:
On Sunday, August 31, 2003, at 04:29 PM, Martin Costabel wrote:(solved)
Stan Sanderson wrote:
I've looked at the archives but haven't found anything effective.
I installed Fink from scratch on a new 17" G4 iMac. I activated the unstable branch, installed XFree86 v 4.3 and Gnome2. I'm using Metacity as my window manager. All files are up-to-date. I've also installed and am using a number of applications, all of which are working (Gnumeric, Scribus, Gimp, etc.).
However, things work only if I start up in Rootless mode. If Full Screen is selected, X-windows quits shortly after the Gnome splash screen appears.
This could be related to a bug in xfree86 that was discussed recently on an XonX forum, see https://sourceforge.net/forum/message.php?msg_id=2155420
-- Martin
Alexander- yes, I did start from terminal (startx -- -fullscreen, if I remember correctly) and used the terminal output to provide keywords for the archive search. Unfortunately, I don't remember what the output was and the machine is in my shop so I can't try it now.
Martin- When I return to the shop Tuesday, I'll try other resolutions. Obviously, the ability to work rootless greatly decreases concern about the problem. I am using the same setup in both Full Screen and Rootless modes on a 15" G4 Ti PB.
Thanks as always for your help and suggestions.
Regards,
Martin's suggestion proved correct. When a lower resolution (1024 x 768) was selected, Gnome loaded correctly in Full Screen mode. Apparently Full Screen (or rather, XFree86, v 4.3) doesn't like the 1440 x 900 resolution afforded users of the 17" iMac.
By the way, after Gnome had loaded in Full Screen at the lower resolution, I switched back to the OS X desktop and changed the resolution back to 1440 x 900. The X11 window retained the previous resolution when I switched back.
As mentioned above, "Rootless" mode works at the higher (1440 x 900) resolution.
Thanks again,
Stan
It may be an aspect ratio issue: I've had no problems with XFree86-4.3 in 1280x1024 mode (e.g. aspect ratio 1.3333:1 vs 1.6x1).
I believe that the window resolution for XFree86 gets set when you start it to whatever the OSX resolution is at the time, and doesn't change, at least for fullscreen operation.
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Alexander K. Hansen
Levitated Dipole Experiment
http://www.psfc.mit.edu/LDX
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