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From: mikey@eukanuba.wpd.sgi.com (Mike Yang)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x.motif
Subject: Re: "mwm: Invalid icon bitmap" under OpenWindows 2.0
Message-ID: <1990Aug20.172414.11968@odin.corp.sgi.com>
Date: 20 Aug 90 17:24:14 GMT
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In article <1990Aug18.133157.4994@squirrel.mh.nl>, jv@mh.nl (Johan
Vromans) writes:
|> In article <1162@meaddata.mead.UUCP> marko@mead.UUCP (Mark Osbourne)
writes:
|> mark> I am running OpenWindows 2.0 on a Sun 3/80 with mwm as my
window
|> mark> manager.  Whenever I start a programs like xclock, GNU emacs,
|> mark> and xrn I get the message "mwm: Invalid icon bitmap".
|> 
|> I've seen the same behaviour when running mwm under DECwindows. 

One reason why mwm will emit "mwm: Invalid icon bitmap" is if the
icon_pixmap specified in hints structure is not a bitmap (i.e. not
depth 1), as the ICCCM says it should be.

With DECwindows applications, their icons were pixmaps so MWM
complains.  It's possible that with OpenWindows something similar is
happening, but I'm surprised that MWM would complain with xclock and
xrn.since these applications do indeed use bitmap icons.

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                 Mike Yang        Silicon Graphics, Inc.
               mikey@sgi.com           415/335-1786