Olivier Chapuis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Tue, Dec 17, 2002 at 03:39:57PM -0500, Dan Espen wrote: > > Ben Sferrazza <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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. > > > > I switch to the fvwm-workers. > > It seems that these cards which support both 8 and 24 depth do not > have 2 hardwares cmaps, so the auto-detection I try to implement is > useless. I think that if the default visual has depth 8 (and no fvwm > visual option is used), then we can try to see if there is a TrueColor > depth > 8 visual and if it is the case use this "best" visual. Dan > what do you think?
Sounds good to me. Sun is making the default visual 8 because there are still a few apps that won't work at anything but 8 bit. I see no problem with apps ignoring the default visual and using the best visual. -- Dan Espen E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Visit the official FVWM web page at <URL:http://www.fvwm.org/>. To unsubscribe from the list, send "unsubscribe fvwm-workers" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] To report problems, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
