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From: Gene Golovchinsky <golovch>
Subject: Re: VW2.0 under Unix and screen color depth
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latyr@iastate.edu (Leslie A Tyrrell) wrote:
>
>In article <D9F6I7.1t4.0.ie@ie.utoronto.ca>, Gene Golovchinsky <golovch> writes:
>|> I'm having problems getting my Smalltalk image to clue in to the
>|> fact that it's running on a 24 bit color screen (attached to an SGI). 
>|> The Smalltalk process itself runs on a Sparc 20. Can anyone suggest
>|> what I should do, look at, etc?
>
>This is just a guess, as I don't have VW here- but doesn't VW 2.0 get it's
>platform-specific information from the OE when it starts up?  At least
>I recall that this is the case for the OS/2 and Windows versions.
>
>To me, it sounds like it has it's platform-specific information ( such
>as color depth ) from the host, the Sparc station.  Also, even though
>the window may be displaying on the SGI, isn't it actually created on
>the Sparc, where all the X-Windows stuff is being emulated?

My guess is that the program (oe20) should query its X connection
(the one provided by the SGI) to find out what it is running on.
It doesn't seem to me that the Sun's window manager should be at
all involved in this.

But I may be wrong!

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G

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