Re: FVWM: Bad Icon bitmap depth

From: Sean Seery <sseery_at_quris.com>
Date: Fri, 23 May 2003 09:22:00 -0600

Dominik Vogt <fvwm_at_fvwm.org> in a message dated "Fri, 23 May 2003 01:07:19 -0600 dubiously asserts..."

Dominik,

> >
> > [FVWM][GetIconBitmap]: <<ERROR>> Window '<some window>' has a bad icon
> > bitmap depth 24(should be 1 or 8)! Ignoring icon bitmap.
>
> You can do little about it. The application is specifying an icon
> with 24 bitplanes, but your display has only 8 bitplanes. Fvwm
> copies the pixmap into the window's icon window which of course
> uses only 8 bitplanes.
>

Thanks for getting back to me. It appears that I am out of luck... or am
I? If I understand what you are saying, the icon window is limited to a
depth of 8. Is this a limitation of the video card/monitor or fvwm
itself? Replacing the monitor/video card is not horribly difficult...

Thanks,

Sean
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Received on Fri May 23 2003 - 10:24:34 BST

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