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- From: tomb@hplsla.hp.com (Tom Bruhns)
- Date: Tue, 12 Jan 1993 20:59:07 GMT
- Subject: Re: A virus?? Icons "wipe" when clicked...
- Message-ID: <18730019@hplsla.hp.com>
- Organization: HP Lake Stevens, WA
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- Yesterday, I wrote:
-
- >Can anyone identify the following behavior as either a virus or
- >some sort of normal behavior? I use virus checkers, and rather seldom
- >add new programs; I recently installed the fish distribution of MACHIV,
- >which is not yet registered.
-
- Why do I always post these questions and then go home and figure out
- what's really happening???
-
- A couple months ago, I started using a 17" high resolution, high
- bandwidth monitor with my A3000, and have been running with a
- superhires interlaced workbench with overscan, some 1450 pixels wide.
- The monitor bandwidth and resolution makes it just dandy even with
- Topaz 8.
-
- Then I added MachIV, which of course has mouse acceleration; I set it
- a bit "hotter" than my feeble old hand is used to.
-
- The result: sometimes when I double-click an icon, I move it just a
- bit. Apparently normal workbench behavior is to redraw all the icons
- when you move one. With a standard hires workbench like I used to use,
- it redrew them so fast that it never bothered me, but if I have no other
- windows on the workbench, it takes a substantial part of a second to
- redraw, so it's quite noticable (with superhires interlaced).
-
- I'll live with it and learn to be more careful in icon-clicking. I just
- couldn't give up the ability to have two 85+ column windows 50+ lines
- high for editing now ;-)
-