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Re: X11 0.2.1,OpenGL and IDL object Graphics [message #34117 is a reply to message #34021]

Sun, 16 February 2003 09:16

John Boccio
Messages: 12
Registered: December 1999

Junior Member

In article <4a097d6a.0302160143.27bbcb4c@posting.google.com>,
MKatz843@onebox.com (M. Katz) wrote:

No luck with these ideas. I already have such file and the look the same
as your suggestions.

I removed and reinstalled everything on the 733 MHz system and on a dual
1.25 GHz system.

No luck.

Same problem.

Setting Hardware OpenGL in preferences crashes demo in Object-World etc.

Any other ideas appreciated.

John Boccio
boccio@swarthmore.edu

>> Is Hardware OpenGL supposed to work yet?
>
> Yes. It's working beautifully for me. In fact, it absolutely FLIES, I'm
> astounded.
> Now, when I'm running an intensive IDL graphics routine, I can see from the
> "top" command that there's a process called "Xquartz" that I had never
> noticed before.
>
> I have a few quick things you might try.
>
> First, make sure you have a ~/.xinitrc file that contains something like
> these 2 lines:
> ------
> xterm -sb -bg snow -rw -sl 500 -geometry 80x59+5+190 &
> exec /usr/X11R6/bin/quartz-wm
> ------
> The first one just calls up an xterm window (obviously) and the
> second makes sure you're running apple's window manager
> and not some other by default. By "~/.xinitrc" I mean that it should be
> located in your /Users/yourname/ directory. You'll need to use
> the terminal window or some other text editor to open/create/modify
> the file since most of the time the .files are hidden in the finder.
>
> Second, you should have an ~/.Xdefaults file containing these lines.
> ------
> idl.gr_visual: TrueColor
> idl.gr_depth: 24
> idl.retain: 1
> ------
> (Note: I don't think that "Idl" versus "idl" makes a difference here,
> but .Xdefaults vs. .xdefaults MAY make a difference. Use .Xdefaults)
> To implement the changes, I think you can just quit X11 and restart it.
> There should be no need to logout or restart the machine.
>
> Let us know if that works for you.
>
> M. Katz

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		X11 0.2.1,OpenGL and IDL object Graphics By: John Boccio on Sat, 15 February 2003 12:58
		Re: X11 0.2.1,OpenGL and IDL object Graphics By: Karl Schultz on Wed, 19 February 2003 08:12
		Re: X11 0.2.1,OpenGL and IDL object Graphics By: Karl Schultz on Tue, 25 February 2003 07:28
		Re: X11 0.2.1,OpenGL and IDL object Graphics By: Karl Schultz on Tue, 18 February 2003 16:34
		Re: X11 0.2.1,OpenGL and IDL object Graphics By: Karl Schultz on Tue, 18 February 2003 13:34
		Re: X11 0.2.1,OpenGL and IDL object Graphics By: Richard French on Sun, 16 February 2003 10:00
		Re: X11 0.2.1,OpenGL and IDL object Graphics By: David Fanning on Sun, 16 February 2003 09:58
		Re: X11 0.2.1,OpenGL and IDL object Graphics By: John Boccio on Sun, 16 February 2003 09:16
		Re: X11 0.2.1,OpenGL and IDL object Graphics By: MKatz843 on Sun, 16 February 2003 01:43

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