On Sunday 22 Jan 2012 15:19:41 Musus Umbra wrote: > On 22 January 2012 14:31, Andy <[email protected]> wrote: > > I have compiled RPC Emu 0.8.9 on my Mageia x86-64 machine, with RiscOS > > VFree 4.02. The settings are for SA110, 256Mb RAM and sound. > > > > My issue is that when RPCEmu starts up it only displays part of the > > desktop - the top left half, so there is a blank band running along the > > bottom and up the right hand side of the window. So I am unable to > > access any of the icons on the icon bar. This also happens whenever I > > change the screen resolution. > > > > I have worked out that by going to fullscreen and then back to windowed > > the whole of the desktop appears. > > > > Is there a cure for this problem? > > Are you using Compiz, by any chance? I had this problem with Compiz - > my workaround was to shade and unshade the RPCemu window. > > AFAICT, it's a Compiz problem that crops up when the RPCemu window > changes size for whatever reason and compiz fails to notice that it > needs to redraw a different area. Doing something that causes compiz > to re-evaluate its idea of the window's size (shade/unshade in my > case, fullscreen/window in yours) kicks compiz into getting it right. > > It's worth noting that RPCemu's window changes size several times > during the RISC OS startup, hence the problem manifests as soon as > things get properly going. > > In the end, for unrelated reasons, I stopped using Compiz.... this > was just one extra problems that solved ;) > > _______________________________________________ > Rpcemu mailing list > [email protected] > http://www.riscos.info/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/rpcemu
Uninstalling Compiz seems to have done the trick thanks. Windows don't move in such a natty way between screens but RPCEmu runs up RISCOS fully filling the window. Now to see if I can install Select 3i3. Andy _______________________________________________ Rpcemu mailing list [email protected] http://www.riscos.info/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/rpcemu
