Ben Sferrazza <bsferraz_at_lsil.com> writes:
> I've previously written about this problem, but I have yet to solve it.
> I cannot get FVWM to properly display XPM pixmaps at their original
> color depth (they appear to be at most 8-bit). I've tried running
> 2.4.13, 2.5.4, and 2.5.5, all on a Sun UltraSPARC Solaris 2.7 system. I
> built FVWM with xpm-3.4k and libpng-1.2.5, and after running configure
> it's reported that xpm and png support was successfully included.
> Running make and make install seem to go without a problem. My system
> certainly supports 24-bit colordepth, as I have no problem viewing these
> XPM pixmaps with 'xv', and am able to view all PNGs with GIMP. Am I
> overlooking something here? Are not enough colors being allocated for
> fvwm, and if so, how can this be changed? I should also mention that I
> am not even able to view any PNG icons with fvwm-2.5.x. For instance,
> "Style xterm Icon dtterm.png" doesn't give me any icon, despite having
> the Imagepath pointing to the location of the png file. Any help to
> resolve these issues is greatly appreciated. thanks.
Looking thru the mail archive, the last thing I see is a request
that you send the output of xdpyinfo and the PrintInfo colors
fvwm command.
Most likely your display card supports both 8 and 24 bit visuals
at the same time. Fvwm is probably picking the 8 bit visual.
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Dan Espen E-mail: dane_at_mk.telcordia.com
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Received on Tue Dec 17 2002 - 14:43:13 GMT