[Xastir] Problem with gif & xpm maps

[Ian A Bultitude]

Hello Curt,

Well I do not know what 'Cygwin' is.

On my windows machines I am using Humming Bird Exceed for the Xwindows and Putty for the SSH.
On the Sun system I am using the in built SSH and the CDE desktop.
I get the same problem on all platforms. This evening I have been playing with a Win98 set-up of the windows config but can not
improve on what I have.
I have enabled the European maps which are all *.map files and they work just fine so the problem is only with the *.gif or *.xpm
(the xpm files were derived from the *.gif using Gimp).

I must thank you for your time and help on this. I am a real 'newby' to all this and hopeless at any form of programming so if I
compiled it wrong I would not know.

It's late here now so I'm off to bed now and will have to have another play to-morrow. Do you have MSN or ICQ for a live chat
session?

Regards
Ian

-----Original Message-----
From: Curt Mills [mailto:archer at eskimo.com]
Sent: 23 January 2005 20:37
To: Ian A Bultitude
Cc: Xastir at Xastir. Org
Subject: RE: [Xastir] Problem with gif & xpm maps


On Sun, 23 Jan 2005, Ian A Bultitude wrote:

> Don't know the colour depth being used as I am using Xwindows on a
> Windows machine (and Solaris 9 at work) by using an SSH
> connection.

Ok, so you're running Xastir on Cygwin, then displaying it via an
SSH connection to your Solaris box?  Check the colordepth on the
solaris box.  That's most likely where your problem lies.  I've seen
color problems like that before using either VNC or remote X-windows
to systems with different colordepths than the system running
Xastir.

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