jturmell@hawk.ulowell.edu (Jeff Turmelle) (02/09/89)
I am running X11 R3 on a GPX running Ultrix. When I use the xsetroot -bitmap for a full screen bitmap (such as fullmoon.gpx, etc.) the bitmap will never come up. However, if I kill the window manager (uwm) it will come up within a minute or so. Also, in order to kill the window manager, I have to remote login because all processing comes to a complete halt. Nothing else on the screen runs while I am waiting for the bitmap to come up. Once the window manager is killed, and the bitmap comes up, I restore the window manager, and everything works great from then on... Is this a known bug, or has anyone had this problem before (and solved it ?). Thanks in advance for any help anyone can give me. Jeff Turmelle jturmell@hawk.ulowell.edu
yba@sword.bellcore.com (Mark Levine) (02/10/89)
In article <11629@swan.ulowell.edu> jturmell@hawk.ulowell.edu (Jeff Turmelle) writes: > > I am running X11 R3 on a GPX running Ultrix. When I use the > xsetroot -bitmap for a full screen bitmap (such as fullmoon.gpx, etc.) > the bitmap will never come up. However, if I kill the window manager > (uwm) it will come up within a minute or so. Also, in order to kill I have found with uwm running that I can tile the root window (using 'xroot'), but that it _does_ lock up the server completely for several _minutes_. After that all function is restored. I guess the time is spent making an in-core 8-bit deep pixmap. In any case, it works with uwm for me under R3 on the GPX. Note that the DECwindows server will _not_ tile the same fullmoon (".dmp.Z) -- it will report insufficient resources and give up. I got the xpix/xroot images from Mark Eichin at Project Athena. What is the source of "fullmoon.gpx" here? Is anyone else trying large bitmaps with DECwindows?