On Mon, May 26, 2003 at 09:50:26AM +0200, Dominik Vogt wrote: > 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. >
Ok. But I do not think I should also backport the autodetection of the best visual on such hardware. What do you think? Regrads, Olivier -- Visit the official FVWM web page at <URL: http://www.fvwm.org/>. To unsubscribe from the list, send "unsubscribe fvwm" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] To report problems, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
