Re: gnome window goes black for no reason with CADENCE tools

[Igor_ <igor galaxy nsc com>]

"Thomas Dodd"  wrote:

Igor_ wrote:
| In my company we are trying to replace SUN workstations with cheaper
| REDHAT  LINUX workstation.

Doing the same here :)

  GREAT :-)

| CADENCE tools need 8-bit pseudo color environment in order to run.

Which release of Cadence's tools? Opus 5 works much better with GNOME.

  we are migrating to opus 5...  but we will still run  for the next 
1-2 years
  old Cadence... because of legacy products

| PROBLEM DESCRIPTION:
| to use SUN Solaris server to run it and we display the result on LINUX

The CAD guys here say use VNC. start the VNCserver on the SUN in 8bit
pseudocolor, and use CDE. Then run VNCviewer on the linux box.

   this is TOO complicated for the "certain" people within design 
comunity  :-(
  For them,  if it does not run PERFECT (whatever that means) it is 
broken !!
   so...  it is not a solution

Using _ANYTHING_ other than what Cadence recommends is likely to cause
problems.

   hmmm ... yes..  but I think there must be a solution for this problem
  (newer XFree86, new video driver, new GNOME desktop, another window 
manager or  new "something else" )

| Clicking on gnome panel means, for example, selecting another desktop
| and then going back to the original one.

| This problem is there ONLY with GNOME desktop. KDE desktop works fine.
| Unfortunately, KDE desktop
| has OTHER issues with CADENCE. We have decided to standardize on GNOME,
| because the newer
| SUN Solaris workstation support GNOME as well.

Again, Cadence says use CDE and MWM. Anthing else is likely to cause
trouble. We've had trouble using Sun's GNOME2.0 release on Sparcs with
Cadence tools.

   hmmm  this is interesting info ... thanks !!

Thanks for the reply 

Igor