Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!wang!mike From: mike@wang.com (Mike Sullivan) Newsgroups: comp.windows.x Subject: Re: Colormaps and Motif Message-ID: Date: 24 Jul 90 14:09:56 GMT References: <4bbac4a1.20b6d@apollo.HP.COM> <765@auto-trol.UUCP> Organization: Wang Labs, Lowell MA, USA Lines: 36 marbru@auto-trol.UUCP (Martin Brunecky) writes: >In article <4bbac4a1.20b6d@apollo.HP.COM> scott@scam.Berkeley.EDU writes: >> >>I am having trouble setting the colormap for my motif applications. >>Is this a known bug, or have people out there been able to >> accomplish this? > ... as far as Motif 1.0.3, there is a bug in mwm; it tries but does NOT > deal with WM_COLORMAP_WINDOWS property correctly. It only installs the > proper colormap IF the colormap is set for the SHELL. > Except for the shell, any windows listed in WM_COLORAMP_WINDOWS property > are simply ignored. I am also having problems w/ colormaps w/ mwm. I am trying to use the xloadimage program posted a while back. It does a lot of mumbling about compressing bitmaps, gets it down to a 16 color bitmap ( which should be fine for my VGA screen ) The screen goes technicolor, but my picture still comes up in a sort of solarized rendition of monochrome. Usually two nasty colors. My question is why do I get a technicolor screen, and still not (APPARENTLY) get the right colormap? Has anyone got any patches to Xloadimage that make it do closest match to the colormap already locked in by Mwm? I am running SCO unix, X11R3 etc. on a PC386 with 4bit VGA -- ________________________ / __ \ | Michael J. Sullivan | \ \ / /\ |\ | / ` | | Wang Laboratories Inc. | \/ \/ /--\ | \| \__T | | mike@fun.WANG.COM \________________________/ | "Whence profundity?"