Re: Weird color problem with GNUstep/Etoile

[Fred Kiefer]

Andreas Höschler wrote:
> 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?
> 

Yes :-)
You should have used
/opt/GNUstep/Local/Applications/Typewriter.app/Typewrite
--GNU-Debug=back-art

I had it correct in one place and wrong in the other.
Sorry
Fred