Re: FVWM: interference firefox/acroread and fvwm on suse 11.3
On Fri, 17 Dec 2010, Thomas Adam wrote: Sounds like the Colormap is used up. Try adding to your .fvwm2rc file: ColormapFocus FollowsFocus Sorry, no effect at all. (I had FollowsMouse before, according to system default) -- Lucio Chiappetti - INAF/IASF - via Bassini 15 - I-20133 Milano (Italy) Italian Research at risk.La Ricerca italiana a rischio ! see http://sax.iasf-milano.inaf.it/~lucio/WWW/Opinions/nobrain.html cfr.
Re: FVWM: interference firefox/acroread and fvwm on suse 11.3
On Fri, Dec 17, 2010 at 12:38:44PM +0100, Lucio Chiappetti wrote: On Fri, 17 Dec 2010, Thomas Adam wrote: Sounds like the Colormap is used up. Try adding to your .fvwm2rc file: ColormapFocus FollowsFocus Sorry, no effect at all. (I had FollowsMouse before, according to system default) It wasn't guaranteed to help, just that it might. There's nothing FVWM can do to help you here if it is a colormap problem -- it certainly sounds like it based on your description. Last I checked, Acroread (despite being a piece of crap [1]) used Motif, whilst Firefox (from your example) does not. So it won't be an .Xdefaults problem in terms of comparing Firefox with Acroread. It could be that Acroread what it starts up is overriding the XResource stuff via XAPPSDIR for itself. You should check that. Not an FVWM problem that I can tell. -- Thomas Adam [1] Any reason why you don't use some other PDF viewer? This is rhetorical, I don't want an actual answer.
Re: FVWM: interference firefox/acroread and fvwm on suse 11.3
On Fri, 17 Dec 2010, Thomas Adam wrote: ColormapFocus FollowsFocus Sorry, no effect at all. There's nothing FVWM can do to help you here if it is a colormap problem -- it certainly sounds like it based on your description. Hmm ... but why should it be ? In the test arrangement I've used there are very few applications running (a couple of xterm, firefox, FvwmPager and a clock), should not be intensive on the colour map. Not an FVWM problem that I can tell. Yes but then why the root user, which uses a (more complicated, and presumably more colour intensive) KDE session does not show the problem with firefox and acroread ? I've tried a xwininfo (under fvmw) on both the old and new system (*) and for both I get Visual Class: TrueColor. The old one (suse 9.2) however gives Depth: 16, and the new one Depth: 24 ... will THAT make a difference? I had a very quick look about colormaps in man fvwm. I see there start time switches like -l which can be used ... but I have no idea how SuSE kdm starts fvwm (once an user has chosen an fvwm session, that remains the default for him at future logins ... but is not stored in the user home), and how I could apply them. (*) incidentally, at the moment both the old and new systems are connected to the SAME physical monitor via a D-link KVM switch. No idea if that can cause problems (sometimes it does with the resolution) ... also old Suse's had sax2 which could be used to tune the X server, but this is gone. [1] Any reason why you don't use some other PDF viewer? I never looked deeply into how many there are (and I'm already using enough not distro bundled stuff for other things :-)). I was happy with the old and light acroread I had on 9.2 and is the sort of thing one expectes to find everywhere. Sometimes used xpdf for newer files which made the old acroread fail. But I do not like that much the look of the more recent acroread so it would be a good moment to switch. -- Lucio Chiappetti - INAF/IASF - via Bassini 15 - I-20133 Milano (Italy) Italian Research at risk.La Ricerca italiana a rischio ! see http://sax.iasf-milano.inaf.it/~lucio/WWW/Opinions/nobrain.html cfr.
Re: FVWM: interference firefox/acroread and fvwm on suse 11.3
On Fri, 17 Dec 2010, Lucio Chiappetti wrote: I've tried a xwininfo (under fvmw) on both the old and new system (*) and for both I get Visual Class: TrueColor. The old one (suse 9.2) however gives Depth: 16, and the new one Depth: 24 ... will THAT make a difference? Apparently not. Found an easy way to change depth (added DefaultDepth 16 in /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/50-screen.conf, restarted and checked), and still I get the white on black bars. -- Lucio Chiappetti - INAF/IASF - via Bassini 15 - I-20133 Milano (Italy) Italian Research at risk.La Ricerca italiana a rischio ! see http://sax.iasf-milano.inaf.it/~lucio/WWW/Opinions/nobrain.html cfr.
