Re: xbm and xpm

> (set-glyph-image gc-pointer-glyph "recycle2.xpm")) > > This worked great for, well years. However, I noticed recently that I > no longer get the recycle icon, I get a text message instead. If I use > the "recycle2.xpm" icon instead, I get an icon but it is black, not > green. I'm seeing this as well, but haven't tracked it down as of yet. My top contender for why it's screwed up: 1) If you're using a 16-bit visual, you could be running out of colormap entries or similar - at least on my box, the default visual looks like this: default visual id: 0x23 visual: visual id: 0x23 class: TrueColor depth: 16 planes available colormap entries: 64 per subfield red, green, blue masks: 0xf800, 0x7e0, 0x1f significant bits in color specification: 8 bits Note that the green mask is 6 bits, but only 5 bits are available in the colormap subfield - so it's possible to run out (I think). Depending on window manager, and background images, your colormap may be running out. I never really understood the semantics of how XAllocColor() is supposed to work on a TrueColor visual in conjunction with colormaps, so....