Re: Weird color problem with GNUstep/Etoile

[Yen-Ju Chen]

On 8/2/07, Andreas Höschler <ahoesch@smartsoft.de> wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> >>
> >> I doubt it has to do with Etoile since the problem persists when I do
> >>
> >>         defaults delete NSGlobalDomain GSAppKitUserBundles
> >>
> >> Any idea what that can be?
> >
> >   Does it happen for Gorm+WindowMaker ?
>
> I have neither Gorm nor Window Maker installe on this machine, only
> GNOME and Azalea. The problem occurs with all GNUstep apps even with
> Azalea itself. I logged into a fail save session and did nothing more
> than
>
>         openapp Azalea &
>
> Azalea is started and the fail safe terminal gets its window border as
> expected, but this window title is some weird green, definitely not
> normal.

  I think it is caused by Azalea, which does *not* use AppKit for drawing.
  Can you test with OpenBox3 window manager (icculus.org/openbox).
  Azalea is ported from OpenBox3 and use the same drawing mechanism.

  Yen-Ju

>
> >   Then does it happen for Gorm+Azalea ?
> >   This can be bug in many level.
> >   So if you can narrow down the cause,
> >   it would be easier to fix.
> >   I suspect something is not right when converting
> >   X window drawing into GNUstep drawing.
> >   So it probably happens in GNUstep backend or Azalea.
>
> Rather inthe backend since it occurs under GNOME as well.
>
> >   Camaelon can be another source,  but it use standard GNUstep drawing.
>
> No, I have switched off Camaelon with
>
>         defaults delete Camaelon
>         defaults delete NSGlobalDomain GSAppKitUserBundles
>
> and still have the same problem (but only on this x86 machine;
> unfortunately I have only one)!? On a SPARC machine I have other issues
> but not this color problem. :-(
>
> Regards,
>
>    Andreas
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