On Mon, May 26, 2003 at 09:42:55AM +0200, Olivier Chapuis wrote:
> On Thu, May 22, 2003 at 10:47:36AM -0600, Sean Seery wrote:
> > Hello,
> >
> > I cannot seem to figure this out so here is my plaintive cry for help:
> >
> > How do I get fvwm to support bitmaps with a depth of 24? Every time that I
> > minimize an application w/such an icon(such as mozilla), fvwm spits out
> > the following error:
> >
> > [FVWM][GetIconBitmap]: <<ERROR>> Window '<some window>' has a bad icon
> > bitmap depth 24(should be 1 or 8)! Ignoring icon bitmap.
> >
>
> I think I've the solution of the problem (I read all the others mail
> of this thread).
>
> Sean has a 8/24 depth screen and the X server start with DefaultDepth = 8.
> This is a classical situation (the X server can be configured to start
> with DefaultDepth = 24, but as certain "old" apps need depth 8 for read-
> write colours the default is depth 8; moreover on such hardware there is
> no visual pbs by using certain app under depth 8 and other with depth 24).
>
> BTW, since 2.5.6 fvwm detect this situation and fvwm choose to use the
> best visual: TrueColor depth 24 (before 2.5.6 the user had to use
> the --visual-id or --visual option; now fvwm need _no_ option).
> A lot of apps use this logic too.
>
> So, for applications supplied icon pixmap we have 3 acceptable depth:
>
> - depth 1 (always ok)
> - depth 8, the default depth
> - depth 24, the fvwm depth
>
> I've just committed a fix.
Cool. Can you backport the fix to 2.4.16 too? It looks fairly
simple, but I'm not sure I would catch all places I have to touch
to make the patch myself.
Bye
Dominik ^_^ ^_^
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Received on Mon May 26 2003 - 02:50:00 BST