[CentOS] A *very* strange C 7 question

Wed Dec 14 22:31:35 UTC 2016
m.roth at 5-cent.us <m.roth at 5-cent.us>

John Hodrien wrote:
> On Wed, 14 Dec 2016, m.roth at 5-cent.us wrote:
>
>> Ok, I've got a user, I just built him a C 7 machine. The new one has an
>> ATI card; the old had an NVidia card. I got it to use the radeon driver,
>> so it looks ok (he has a very wide screen). However... he has a program
>> that renders a molecule (which you see as many connected lines, in
>> various colors). However... it used to display it against a black
background,
>> and suddenly, it's a transparent background, showing what's under that
>> window.
>>
>> Anyone got any ideas about that?
>
> I'll gamble on:
>
> export XLIB_SKIP_ARGB_VISUALS=1
>
*Bing* Hand that man a chocolate cigar!

Thank you *very* much (even though I had to tell my user to use setenv, he
being in c shell....)

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