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From: fangchin@elaine42.Stanford.EDU (Chin Fang)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.aix
Subject: X11R4 twm menu color problem and a few others on RS6000.
Message-ID: <1991May16.001316.5190@leland.Stanford.EDU>
Date: 16 May 91 00:13:16 GMT
Sender: news@leland.Stanford.EDU (Mr News)
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Hello,

I applied Dan Greening's R4 client/lib patches to our src tree and successfully
built/install all of them.  Testing so far indicates no major problems except
the following few:

(1) is it true that IBM's R3 server can not use rgb.txt from R4?

    for instance, BlanchedAlmond is not understood by IBM X server.

(2) when you run twm, how can you make menu entries show up right after the 
    menu pop up?  I have to drag the ptr down to make them visible.  Besides,
    If I pop up a submenu, once it's gone, the parent menu is botched. ie, 
    there is a block of plain color, unless I drag the ptr over that area 
    again.

    This becomes particularly annoying if I use InterpolateMenuColor.

(3) how about fonts?  Does the R3 server understand all Standard R4 fonts?
    I haven't covert them yet.  Before I do, I like to hear others' experience
    
    I do know that even people at Saber Software complain about some font
    related problems at their site.  

I would appreciate it very much if anyone who has done this before could 
share some of your experience.  A summary is promised if there is enough 
interest.

Regards,

Chin Fang
Mechanical Engineering Department
Stanford University
fangchin@leland.stanford.edu