[ale] Motif(?) color problems

Alexander Barton alex at cad.gatech.edu
Thu Oct 9 12:29:09 EDT 1997


> 
> I recently installed a new video card and now I'm having trouble with
> applications statically linked against Motif.
> 
> The details: I used to run XFree86 at 8 bpp (PseudoColor).  Now I have a 
> Matrox Mystique 220 with 4 MB, and I'm trying to run XFree86 3.3.1 at 24 bpp
> (TrueColor).  Everything is fine, except my Netscape Navigator 3.0 refuses to
> display colors for its toolbar buttons (they show up all black), its status
> window, and security key icon.  Also, my Progress V7 Motif client also doesn't
> seem to deal well with the new display depth -- it wants to display black on
> black in the entire window.
> 
[snip]
> -- 
> John Straw                                                       straw19 at idt.net
> 

I'm running Netscape at 16bpp (on two different chipsets) with
no problems.

-Alexander






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