Re: Weird color problem with GNUstep/Etoile

[Andreas Höschler]

Hi Fred,

> > So this problem - in opposite to not being able to use GNUstep/Etoile 
> > as
> > a non-root user - is not very urgent. Nevertheless, if somebody has an
> > idea what might cause this...
>
> Looks like you are having a different byte order on the remote display
> then the one art detects.

Yes, that fits! One machine is SPARC the other is x86.

> As far as I rememeber Alexander Malmberg put
> in a solution for this case in 2005. But the comment there leaves some
> space for improvement :
>
>     /* If the server doesn't have the same endianness as we do, we need
>        to flip the masks around (well, at least sometimes; not sure
>        what'll really happen for 15/16bpp modes).  */
>
> See ARTContext initWithContextInfo:
>
> Could you please find out, which colour mode you are using and if you
> hit this specific case? Enabling debug output for "back-art" should at
> least provide some of the data. (Start your application with
> --GNU-Debug=backart)

I tried

	/opt/GNUstep/Local/Applications/Typewriter.app/Typewrite 
--GNU-Debug=backart

The application got started with the color problem, but nothing of 
value was logged!? A typo?

Regards,

   Andreas