[Xastir] Good news, Bad news...
Tom Russo
russo at bogodyn.org
Mon Nov 12 17:49:04 EST 2007
On Mon, Nov 12, 2007 at 02:54:24PM -0700, we recorded a bogon-computron collision of the <russo at bogodyn.org> flavor, containing:
> On Thu, Nov 08, 2007 at 11:25:02PM -0500, we recorded a bogon-computron collision of the <rtg at aapsc.com> flavor, containing:
> [missing fonts with recent versions of openmotif]
> >
> > I know the developers have been saying this is a bug in the motif
> > libraries, but I don't see this artifact in any other applications which
> > depend on those same libraries, so there must be some component of coding
> > style involved as well...
>
> I just spent ten minutes googling the issue and found this:
>
> http://bugs.motifzone.net/show_bug.cgi?id=1381
>
> Turns out that there *is* a bug in openmotif related to labels and such that
> are set to insensitive with the XtSetSensitive function. We use that all
> over the place. They claim to have it fixed, but the fix is ifdef'd, meaning
> you'd have to recompile openmotif from source with that symbol defined.
There is also a mention of how to kludge around it by frobbing an
application-specific resource file, and perhaps someone who still has
a system with this version of openmotif and a little understanding of X
resource files might be able to test it out. I have neither.
The relevant resource looks like it would be the one that sets the FontType
in the render table, but I don't know how much of the other parts of the
example resource file in that bug report would be necessary to get the job
done in Xastir. I would think it was just the one line, but not sure.
If someone with time could read through
http://www.ist.co.uk/motif/books/vol6A/ch-25.fm.html
and see if they can make heads or tails of it enough to try something, that
would probably be of benefit to the community.
--
Tom Russo KM5VY SAR502 DM64ux http://www.swcp.com/~russo/
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"And, isn't sanity really just a one-trick pony anyway? I mean all you get is
one trick, rational thinking, but when you're good and crazy, oooh, oooh,
oooh, the sky is the limit!" --- The Tick
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