On Sun, Mar 23, 2008 at 02:58:26PM -0500, we recorded a bogon-computron collision of the <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> flavor, containing: > On Sun, Mar 23, 2008 at 7:36 AM, Tony Hunt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Well here we go again.. Ive got xastir going.. I used the Slackware > > pkgtool > > and loaded Openmotif 2.3.0 for Slackw 12 and ImageMagick 6.3.3 also. > > > > Xastir compiles and runs but has a strange problem that I have not seen > > before. > > The Menu texts are missing. There are just small boxes in place of the > > Text > > on all menus. making it a real memory test to drive xastir. What is this > > issue ? > > > There's a known bug in OpenMotif 2.3, and it sounds like that is what you > have run into. From what I have seen, version 2.2.3 and 2.2.4 work fine, > but I have never tried 2.2.2. Where did you find the Slackware package for > OpenMotif 2.2.2? I never found a Slackware package for OpenMotif when I > making Xastir work with VectorLinux 5.9. Is there perhaps a 2.2.3 version > where that came from? If all else fails you may want to try Lesstif. > That's what I did to make things work on Vector - a few minor text issues > with some menu items, but nothing major.
Last November I googled a bunch and found that there is a known bug in OpenMotif 2.3: http://bugs.motifzone.net/show_bug.cgi?id=1381 (this bug is still opened) By looking at the duplicate bug report: http://bugs.motifzone.net/show_bug.cgi?id=1360 I found a suggested work-around, involving tweaking the font renderer with an X resource hack. This *might* work, and I posted it back in November for those who might actually have this issue (I've never installed motif 2.3 so have no way of testing): ----------- On Mon, Nov 12, 2007 at 03:49:04PM -0700, we recorded a bogon-computron collision of the <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> flavor, containing: > On Mon, Nov 12, 2007 at 02:54:24PM -0700, we recorded a bogon-computron > collision of the <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> flavor, containing: > > On Thu, Nov 08, 2007 at 11:25:02PM -0500, we recorded a bogon-computron > > collision of the <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> flavor, containing: > > [missing fonts with recent versions of openmotif] > > > > > > I know the developers have been saying this is a bug in the motif > > > libraries, but I don't see this artifact in any other applications which > > > depend on those same libraries, so there must be some component of coding > > > style involved as well... > > > > I just spent ten minutes googling the issue and found this: > > > > http://bugs.motifzone.net/show_bug.cgi?id=1381 > > > > Turns out that there *is* a bug in openmotif related to labels and such that > > are set to insensitive with the XtSetSensitive function. We use that all > > over the place. They claim to have it fixed, but the fix is ifdef'd, meanin g > > you'd have to recompile openmotif from source with that symbol defined. > [...] > > The relevant resource looks like it would be the one that sets the FontType > in the render table, but I don't know how much of the other parts of the > example resource file in that bug report would be necessary to get the job > done in Xastir. I would think it was just the one line, but not sure. > > If someone with time could read through > http://www.ist.co.uk/motif/books/vol6A/ch-25.fm.html > and see if they can make heads or tails of it enough to try something, that > would probably be of benefit to the community. It looks like if one were to create a resource file, say, "resource.test" with: *.fontType: FONT_IS_FONT in it, then make xastir use it by running: XENVIRONMENT=`pwd`/resource.test /usr/local/bin/xastir then perhaps the issue might clear up. Could someone try it? -- Tom Russo KM5VY SAR502 DM64ux http://www.swcp.com/~russo/ Tijeras, NM QRPL#1592 K2#398 SOC#236 AHTB#1 http://kevan.org/brain.cgi?DDTNM "And, isn't sanity really just a one-trick pony anyway? I mean all you get is one trick, rational thinking, but when you're good and crazy, oooh, oooh, oooh, the sky is the limit!" --- The Tick _______________________________________________ Xastir mailing list [email protected] http://lists.xastir.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/xastir
