>>>>> "guillaume" == Guillaume Rousse <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

guillaume> Ainsi parlait Gary Lawrence Murphy :
>> The following message is a courtesy copy of an article
>> that has been posted to comp.os.linux.setup as well.
>> 
>> 
>> Ever since upgrading to Mandrake 8.0, Tcl check boxes no longer show
>> the check state -- these programs have been working fine for 5 or
>> more years, but something about the 8.0 default config does not
>> agree with them.
>> 
>> Has anyone else noticed this problem?  Is there an Xresource that
>> determines the colour or icon Tcl (tcl-8.3.3-7mdk) would use to mark
>> the state of a checkbox or radio button?  It may be related to the
>> Gnome/sawfish window manager (haven't tried under KDE).
>> 
>> I figured out (using appres) to set the background color of these
>> apps hoping that perhaps the problem was just the highlight shading
>> on Athena widgets, but now I can clearly see the white highlight
>> and it never varies with the state of the checkboxes, and the
>> problem is constant across all Tcl programs.
guillaume> Not sure about this one (i'm not a tcl user), but i know that currently 
make 
guillaume> xconfig is useless without running xrdb < /dev/null first because of ugly 
guillaume> colors.
guillaume> BTW, would it be possible to add this command into kernel makefile 
directly, 
guillaume> so as to help clueless users and avoid others to repeat this command 
guillaume> endlessly ?

it works for me(TM) without any change, and another couple of persons
that I know happens the same, what are you running?

Later, Juan.

-- 
In theory, practice and theory are the same, but in practice they 
are different -- Larry McVoy

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