Labview Linux X Forwarding Flashing

[KeenanJohnson]

Hello. I am running Labview 2012 for linux on a remote box. I am using putty in combination with XMing for X11 forwarding. However, sometimes Labview starts flashing white and commands no longer work. I feel like this is an issue with the x forwarding and could be easily solved by changing a setting. I was wondering if anyone has any experience or ideas to help solve this problem. Thanks.

[James-K]

Hi Keenan,

What other programs are you running?  Is this reproducible with another program or just LabVIEW?

[KeenanJohnson]

I have yet to see it in any other applications that I have x forwarded. So I would hazard to guess that it is just labview. Furthermore it seems to only happen when the context help window is open.

[Joseph_Loo]

I see the same problem when I use an X11 window open on a remote machine. This occurred on 2011 version but I do not believe it occurred on 2010 version. It seems to me that Labview is trying to update the context windows too often, thus you have the flashing issue.

[James-K]

It sounds like it might be a rendering issue.  Have you tried investigating this from the Xming side?  

[Joseph_Loo]

I was using cgywin for my access. There is a possibility that it could be a gnome or kde problem. It seems to have gone away for now. I am running on OpenSUSE 12.2 AMD64 with the latest patches.

Because of the flashing, I tend to use a minimal amount of display to avoid the flashing.

[Joseph_Loo]

I think we have some bit rot in the windows system. I tried it las night at the end of the day and got a lot of flashing just opening the context window. This morning I did the same thing and none of the flashing occur. I suggest the following: 1. log out and login or 2. reboot the machine. Make sure you have plenty of ram.