On Thu, May 22, 2003 at 11:38:12PM -0700, Dorothy Robinson wrote:
> Bubblemon is the wrong color on my Solaris box(en) too. Instead of blue
> sky and water, the background is red. It looks more like a bloody
> duck-hunting scene than an idyllic pond.
> I took a quick look at the code
> and I think it's directly fiddling the bits of the color specification, so
> I suspect it assumes little-endian x86 byte order and doesn't do the right
> thing on the big-endian sparc.
Groan, that's guaranteed not to work on many systems. X makes no
guarantees at all about the meaning of the individual bits. I may
work by accident on true colour visuals, but is almost doomed to
fail on every display with less than 24 bitplanes.
> See
> <http://www.webopedia.com/TERM/b/big_endian.html> I'd probably learn
> something if I tried to fix it, but don't see when I'll ever get time.
>
> Jake Colman wrote:
> >I would like to use bubblemon but the colors don't work correctly. I've
> >tried this using both fvwm and cde under both VNC and Exceed so I am pretty
> >sure it's not a WM or X Server problem. SO what _is_ the problem? Is
> >anyone
> >using it successfully on Solaris 7? Any ideas what could be wrong?
Bye
Dominik ^_^ ^_^
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Received on Fri May 23 2003 - 02:01:24 BST