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BrianDrozd
10-25-2002, 03:49 PM
I need some help with some code I'm trying to get to run on Redhat Linux. The code was originally writen for Solaris and it works just fine there. However, when I run the code on Linux, certain basic XWindows function are not occuring as I expect them to. Specifically I have the following problems:

1) Linux is not responding to changes to the colormap, regardless of whether I use a read-write colormap (Psuedocode for example) or read-only colormap. All the XWindows documentation I can find suggests that the correct behavior is that changing a color in a read-write colormaps should produce immediate results. The only thing I can think off to explain the difference is that Redhat is not actually using a read-write colormap. How do I change that?

2) Windows I have set up to have no decorations all have decorations under Redhat. How do I turn them off?

All of these problems are specific to the Redhat system - when I log in remotely from a Solaris box and run the code, colormap changes and decorations work exactly as I expect them to. How do I get Redhat Linux to perform more like I expect on a Solaris system?

Stuka
10-25-2002, 04:26 PM
*DISCLAIMER* I know squat about X Windows coding.

That said, your second issue is probably window-manager related. Is GNOME still the default on RH? Or is it KDE now? (or what is it on your systems?). I'd bet the WM is the problem, as they do the decorations by default, I'm sure.

BrianDrozd
10-25-2002, 04:34 PM
Yes, that's my general conclusion too. It's skill Gnome by default, but I've tried it with both Gnome and KDE. Neither worked like I wanted - both produced the same problems.

The problem is I can't fix this with anything in the respective configuration tools. And I don't know what else I could possibly set that would fix either of these problems.