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RE: placing launched MAGIC 7.1 & app dissappears
- From: "Harold Hunt" <huntharo at msu dot edu>
- To: "Ed Conrad" <ooedoo at yahoo dot com>, <cygwin-xfree at cygwin dot com>
- Date: Fri, 29 Mar 2002 16:13:48 -0500
- Subject: RE: placing launched MAGIC 7.1 & app dissappears
Ed,
Because Magic 7.1 only works when you have Windows in 8 bit color mode, or
if you run in fullscreen mode at 8 bits per pixel, or if you tell Magic that
you want it to use OpenGL for graphics.
You can start Cygwin/XFree86 in fullscreen mode at 8 bits per pixel like so:
XWin -fullscreen -depth 8
Harold
> -----Original Message-----
> From: cygwin-xfree-owner@cygwin.com
> [mailto:cygwin-xfree-owner@cygwin.com]On Behalf Of Ed Conrad
> Sent: Friday, March 29, 2002 3:53 PM
> To: cygwin-xfree@cygwin.com
> Subject: placing launched MAGIC 7.1 & app dissappears
>
>
> Hi,
>
> I got magic 7.1 installed and trying to run it about
> 10 times only got the magic window to open once.
> After that, I can't open it at all. The full-screen
> window opens, the app window is on the mouse cusor,
> but when I place it, it vanishes.
>
> Does anyone know why windows vanish like that?
>
> Thanks
>
> Ed
>
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