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From: keith@hpcvlx.cv.hp.com (Keith Taylor)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x.motif
Subject: Re: "mwm: Invalid icon bitmap" under OpenWindows 2.0
Message-ID: <110630006@hpcvlx.cv.hp.com>
Date: 20 Aug 90 17:44:00 GMT
References: <1162@meaddata.mead.UUCP>
Organization: Hewlett-Packard Co., Corvallis, OR, USA
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>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. 
>
>	Johan

This is probably mwm complaining about the depth of the icon pixmap
passed in. According to the ICCCM, the pixmap passed in via WM_HINTS
should be 1-pixel deep. If the pixmap is deeper than that, then
mwm will reject it.

Keith M. Taylor		keith@cv.hp.com	
Hewlett-Packard
Corvallis, Oregon