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From: pms@arbortext.COM
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: Re: Strange xterm problem under OW 2.0
Message-ID: <9106121533.AA08083@ash.arbortext.com>
Date: 12 Jun 91 15:31:53 GMT
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re:
> 
> A friend using the xterm which comes with OW 2.0 is getting a sporadic
> problem.  When starting xterm, he will occasionaly get the message:
> Error: SmeBSB Object: Left Bitmap of entry  "font2" is not one bit deep

I've run into this before and chalked it up to a bug in the
OpenWindows 2.0 server. Occasionally, the XGetGeometry() call made by
GetBitmapInfo() in the SmeBSB object returns a depth of 0 instead of 1
for 1-bit deep pixmaps. The other values (width, height, border_width)
returned were always ok, just the depth was wrong.  Unfortunately I
was never able to get a test program to reliably reproduce this
problem so I couldn't convince Sun that it was really a bug in
their server. I never ran into this problem with OW 2.0Beta, just OW 2.0.

I resorted to patching GetBitmapInfo() in lib/Xaw/SmeBSB.c to change the
two tests
	if (depth != 1) {
to
	if (depth > 1) {
to paper over the problem.


Pat Sherry
ArborText, Inc.