[Xastir] Good news, Bad news...

[Tom Russo]

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.

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