Hello, newbie here....very fresh to PD. I'm running PD Extended .40-3 extended on Ubuntu 8.04 i386. I've set up a very basic gemwin program. When I click on create, the window comes up, usually quite small and it is flickering as well.

Any help?

//ksamualtolch

which graphics hardware?
what graphics driver?
what kind of monitor?
what frame rate is the gemwin and monitor?

you can set the frame rate with [gemwin 20] for 20fps, [gemwin 60] for 60fps etc

you can set the window size with "dimen 640 480" or "dimen 1024 768" etc messages to the [gemwin] before you "create" it.

Here's my sysinfo. I'm on a gateway MX7525 notebook.

Graphics Card:
00:00.0 Host bridge: ATI Technologies Inc Radeon Xpress 200 (RS480/RS482/RX480/RX482) Chipset - Host bridge (rev 01)

Driver:
ati_agp (?)

I tried to set the resolution and fps, it works...Gemwin is loading up. I can see it on my taskbar, just not on my desktop. It's there, just not visible. Does this make sense?

do you mean the window is empty? or that the window is invisible completely? for the first, remember to turn rendering on with a "1" message to the [gemwin], for the second, maybe it appears outside the visible desktop area, so try an "offset 0 0" message to the [gemwin] before creating it (but i'm not sure if that works with all window managers)

It's actually invisible...as strange as that may seem. It's not outside of the desktop. Ubuntu has a desktop switcher on the taskbar that indicates where windows are located on a particular desktop (in my case i have two desktops). I can clearly see Gem in the switcher. Also, when i right click on gem in the taskbar and select resize, the cursor moves to gem on the desktop for me to resize. The other windows behave as if there is another window open in front of them, you just can't see that window(gem). So gem is there, it's just not visible.