Re: x11 text and color issues
Re: x11 text and color issues
- Subject: Re: x11 text and color issues
- From: Harold Bolton <email@hidden>
- Date: Wed, 14 Oct 2009 15:54:44 -0600
Hi Jeremy,
I tried changing the color depth from thousands of colors to millions of colors. I have not had the problem recur yet.
I then created a new user as you suggested. The problem recurred when the color depth was set at thousands of colors, and not for millions of colors.
hmmmm!
The onset of the problem is not generally when X11 is launched. Usually, things start okay, and after using the computer for a while, the problem begins and then becomes constant. I mention this as a caveat since it does not seem to be recurring at this time.
I thank you for the suggestion to change the color depth. I had become very frustrated with the Snow Leopard istall. (I don't think I had yet mentioned that this problem began with Snow Leopard.)
cheers,
-harold
On Wed, Oct 14, 2009 at 11:29 AM, Jeremy Huddleston
<email@hidden> wrote:
Please keep the responses on the list.
Have you tried with a fresh user account? If not, please create a new user in your Account Preferences (in Sys Prefs) and test with that user.
Can you try changing the color depth of X11 (requires a restart) in X11->Preferences->Output to see if that has any effect?
On Oct 14, 2009, at 06:35, Harold Bolton wrote:
Hi Jeremy,
You are correct that what the picture shows is just black where I didn't
wipe. Rather than use 'garbled' I should have defined the problem more
carefuly. Generally when I type in a window, the black follows the cursor
position. Also, black occurs for any text shown, as with a 'ls', or any
other text displaying command.
However, sometimes when I type, there will be intermittent characters that
are displayed normally, while others show black. Then there is a mixture of
'black' and 'normal'. This is what I meant by garbled.
The 'About This Mac' shows the following:
Intel GMA 950:
Chipset Model: GMA 950
Type: GPU
Bus: Built-In
VRAM (Total): 64 MB of Shared System Memory
Vendor: Intel (0x8086)
Device ID: 0x27a2
Revision ID: 0x0003
Displays:
Color LCD:
Resolution: 1280 x 800
Pixel Depth: 32-Bit Color (ARGB8888)
Main Display: Yes
Mirror: Off
Online: Yes
Built-In: Yes
Display Connector:
Status: No Display Connected
I hope this helps. Thanks again for looking at this.
cheers,
-harold
On Tue, Oct 13, 2009 at 11:27 PM, Jeremy Huddleston <email@hidden>wrote:
On Oct 13, 2009, at 17:06, Harold Bolton wrote:
Hi All,
I have been reluctant to write to the list, as my expertise is far below
most all the users I've seen. However, my problem is driving me nuts.
The basic problem is that when I use a xterm window that color gets
garbled
when I type or text is displayed.
Can you tell me a bit more about your system? What video card?
I have not seen nor heard about this problem yet, but it looks like an
issue with damage.
Can you describe what you mean by "gets garbled"? I just see black where
you didn't wipe.
The fix for me has been to keep a spare
xterm window on hand, and when the text disappears, I 'wipe' the spare
window over the problem area. The attached file shows two xterm window.
The
small one with the gold text is the 'wipe' xterm. One can see that where
the
'wipe' window has passed over the original window, text is visible. Text
is
not visible where the window has not passed over.
I am running 10.6.1 on a 2.16 Ghz processor. For the X11 I a using XQuartz
2.3.4.
Any help will be deeply appreciated!
much cheer,
-harold
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