Re: What could be missing?

On Mon, 21 Feb 2011 22:56:33 -0500, Jeremy <[email protected]> wrote:

> On 2/20/11, Jeremy <[email protected]> wrote:
>>
>> You got me thinking in a new direction and I want to attempt a couple
>> of things first.
>
> SOLVED!!!
>
> It took me a while to get to it, but it was as simple as entering the
> following command:
>
> export XLIB_SKIP_ARGB_VISUALS=1
>
> before starting NEdit. I have made it part of a script I now use each
> time to start NEdit on the laptop.
> It seems that Motif has a problem with the ARGB visuals called upon
> by X.Org when interacting with the specific hardware on my laptop
> (or something similar to that extent).
>
> 'XLIB_SKIP_ARGB_VISUALS=1' directs the X library to prevent the
> interaction of these ARGB visuals with Motif, which solves the
> problem perfectly. Now, NEdit performs on my old laptop as
> perfectly as it does on my other larger, newer machine. :)

Duh, I totally should have remembered that. On the other hand, I haven't  
seen that issue in such a long time (probably because I use a CVS version)  
that it completely escaped me.

	Aaron W. Hsu

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