Hi Richard,
You said...
> > When I issue 'win &' from an xterm the flash
> > and redraw of the desktop still occurs but
> > there is no warning message.
> > From your previous message it sounded like the
> > "flash and redraw" were not really the problem.
> > Rather the problem is that the icons all disappear.
> > Is that right?
Sorry, I wasn't plain enough. The screen flashes and the desktop is
redrawn. I don't lose the icons permanently. The problem seems to be that
some process occurs after the screen is drawn the first time which gives
the '& is missing' error if I use 'win &'. The process still seems to
occur even when I remove the '&' from the situation.
> This sounds like something that may be specific to
> your Xserver, video card, or Xconfiguration. What
> Xserver are you running? Which Linux Distro?
> Which Video card? Can you also reply with the
> output of "xdpyinfo"?
The card is an ATI Expert 98 - 8MB. I use the standard Mach 64 server and
the distro is Mandrake 7.1 with your kernel sources compiled. Here is the
output from xdpyinfo...
name of display: :0.0
version number: 11.0
vendor string: Linux Mandrake (XFree86 3.3.6, X-TT 1.3, patch level
14mdk)
vendor release number: 3360
maximum request size: 4194300 bytes
motion buffer size: 256
bitmap unit, bit order, padding: 32, LSBFirst, 32
image byte order: LSBFirst
number of supported pixmap formats: 2
supported pixmap formats:
depth 1, bits_per_pixel 1, scanline_pad 32
depth 24, bits_per_pixel 32, scanline_pad 32
keycode range: minimum 8, maximum 134
focus: window 0x4000013, revert to PointerRoot
number of extensions: 20
BIG-REQUESTS
DOUBLE-BUFFER
DPMS
Font-Cache
LBX
MIT-SCREEN-SAVER
MIT-SHM
MIT-SUNDRY-NONSTANDARD
RECORD
SECURITY
SHAPE
SYNC
XC-APPGROUP
XC-MISC
XFree86-DGA
XFree86-Misc
XFree86-VidModeExtension
XInputExtension
XKEYBOARD
XTEST
default screen number: 0
number of screens: 1
screen #0:
dimensions: 1280x1024 pixels (433x347 millimeters)
resolution: 75x75 dots per inch
depths (1): 24
root window id: 0x25
depth of root window: 24 planes
number of colormaps: minimum 1, maximum 1
default colormap: 0x21
default number of colormap cells: 256
preallocated pixels: black 0, white 16777215
options: backing-store YES, save-unders YES
largest cursor: 64x64
current input event mask: 0xf8603f
KeyPressMask KeyReleaseMask ButtonPressMask
ButtonReleaseMask EnterWindowMask LeaveWindowMask
ButtonMotionMask KeymapStateMask
SubstructureNotifyMask
SubstructureRedirectMask FocusChangeMask PropertyChangeMask
ColormapChangeMask
number of visuals: 1
default visual id: 0x20
visual:
visual id: 0x20
class: TrueColor
depth: 24 planes
available colormap entries: 256 per subfield
red, green, blue masks: 0xff0000, 0xff00, 0xff
significant bits in color specification: 8 bits
> On another note, it sounds like your "&" error message
> went away when you removed the "&" from your Desktop Icon
> Shortcut.
At least I know what the source of that infuriating & was!!
Ed Form
_______________________________________________
Win4Lin-users mailing list
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
http://lists.netraverse.com/mailman/listinfo/win4lin-users
