Re: XEmacs' desktop icon greyed out in 21.2

I'm sitting on a 7043 Model 43P-150 with a GXT255P graphics adapter installed. As this card has 24-bit true color depth and allows to display 16.7 million colors *simultaneously*, I can't imagine this should be a problem. As a matter of fact, it doesn't make a difference if I change from "more colors for applications" (which is my default) to "more colors for desktop". What confuses me, is that the 21.2-b11 binary starts with a correctly displayed icon - with the window manager having the same settings, with the same graphics adapter and also with my X settings unchanged. Thus something must have changed since b11 ... Another confusing effect: XEmacs 21.1.7, compiled with the *same* environment on the *same* machine, works fine, i.e. has the correct colored icon. This is why is suspect 21.2 to do something wrong. To the Motif problems: I've also worked with former beta releases of 21.2, but never had any problems. Maybe I just had a lot of luck ...! ;-) Or is it because I compiled using the Motif 1.2 compatibility files as includes to the compiler (see Installation file), which was the only way it worked for me. Finally, thanks for the hint concerning X11.base.lib. Of course I have it installed (4.3.2.6) - in fact I was as happy as you when IBM finally fixed this. I can remember that several XEmacs applications (shell, compile, etc.) caused a crash before this was fixed. I was just thinking about building against stock X11, when the fix was made available. Nevertheless, thank you for mentioning it! --- Markus Alt IBM Laboratory Boeblingen, Germany Valdis.Kletnieks(a)vt.edu on 09/29/99 03:27:40 PM Please respond to Valdis.Kletnieks(a)vt.edu To: Markus Alt/Germany/IBM＠IBMDE cc: xemacs-beta(a)xemacs.org Subject: Re: XEmacs' desktop icon greyed out in 21.2 On Wed, 29 Sep 1999 10:52:46 +0200, ALTMARK(a)de.ibm.com said: colored tarballs) in What model RS/6000 are you on, and what graphic card is installed? This sounds suspiciously like colormap exhaustion on an 8-bit card, where it ends up trying to find the "closest" already allocated color if all 256 colormap cells are installed. Under dtwm, go into the 'preferences' panel, and look under 'colors' - does setting "more for applications" or "more for desktop" make a difference? "M-x If you're running with "more colors for applications", XEmacs may be able to get 192 or so color cells, and be able to display it "right", but with onlu 16/32 or whatever it is reserved for the window manager, it's mapping down to some other color (since icon colors count against the window manater, not against the application). Installation Umm.. The usual problem is the XEmacs process bombing out with a signal 6 at startup time while trying to initialize the first frame. You'd know it if you saw it. ;) There appear to be *some* combinations of *exact* levels of XEmacs and Motif that don't bomb out, probably more due to luck than anything else. (For example, for the 21.2 betas, Motif was broken up to -b12 or so, started working till -b17, and is broken again. I can't be sure if it was -b12 through -b17, or if it was X11.libs.motif.4.3.2.foo for some values of foo, or an interaction). If it's working now, it will probably fall over the next time you apply a patch. ;) Oh, since you're on AIX 4.3.2, make sure to install X11.base.lib 4.3.2.5 or later to pick up a *very* important fix for libXt.a. It's free, and easy to do. ;) -- Valdis Kletnieks Computer Systems Senior Engineer Virginia Tech