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.
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