XEmacs' desktop icon greyed out - revisited

Last September, I sent the note attached below to the list to report that my XEmacs' desktop (i.e. window manager) icon was greyed out (not colored) in 21.2-b19. (BTW: I have the same behaviour in each and every beta ever since, now running b27.) Valdis asked me in a response to my mail on what RS/6000 model I was on and what graphic card was installed. It was a 7043 model 150 with a GXT255P graphic adapter and he told me that the latter was known to be "brain-dead with colormap management" and that its successor, the GXT2000P, hopefully fixes the problem. Well, meanwhile I have such a thing in my RS/6000 - and apparently it doesn't ... The other thing is: I've been running a XEmacs on a RS/6000 model F50 which has a GXT120P graphic card installed (the former entry card which is only capable of displaying 256 out of 16.7 M colors). Surprisingly, on that machine, everything looks fine with the icons. All this would prove that it's a hardware problem on the "better" graphic cards, but ... a) all 21.1 XEmacsen I built on my machine (in the same environment and with the same options to 'configure') have a nice white-red-yellow icon and b) that old 21.2-b11 XEmacs which still sits around in my filesystem also does it right, means: colored. So this leads me to the conclusion that something must have changed in the way these icons are displayed since 21.2-b11 (or maybe in a later beta - I haven't built each and every one in between b11 and b19). No one else on AIX and comparable hardware seeing this? And if I'm the only one - could at least someone of the gurus please tell me what has changed in the code so I might be able to create a workaround for my "brain-dead" ;-) hardware? Any help is greatly appreciated! TIA, Markus --- Markus Alt IBM Laboratory Boeblingen, Germany ---------------------- Forwarded by Markus Alt/Germany/IBM on 02/03/2000 04:07 PM --------------------------- ALTMARK(a)de.ibm.com on 09/29/99 10:52:46 AM Please respond to ALTMARK(a)de.ibm.com To: xemacs-beta(a)xemacs.org cc: (bcc: Markus Alt/Germany/IBM) Subject: XEmacs' desktop icon greyed out in 21.2 Maybe I should have reported this much earlier, but perhaps I got used to that odd behaviour ... Nevertheless, finally: Since a few beta versions of 21.2, the desktop icon of XEmacs is displayed greyed-out on my window manager (i.e. not that usual colored red, yellow and white style). Same for dtwm and mwm window manager. I don't remember exactly in which version this occured for the first time, but it definetely happens when I start the latest 21.2-b19 (compiled from the tarballs) and on the other hand everything's ok when I start that old 21.2-b11 binary I still have (also compiled myself). As I haven't built each and every version in between, I can't determine when I saw this first. Surprisingly, when opening the file <installdir>/lib/xemacs-21.2-b19/etc/xemacs-icon.xpm within XEmacs and call "M-x xpm-mode" afterwards, the XPM image is displayed as expected at the top of the buffer. Perhaps somebody can shed a little light on this? OS is AIX 4.3.2, Installation file attached below. (BTW, when talking about the Installation file: It always complains that "Motif dialog boxes cause problems on AIX 4.3 and higher". I've never seen any of them ... What problems are these?) TIA for your help! (See attached file: Installation) --- Markus Alt IBM Laboratory Boeblingen, Germany