From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Gary Mills Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs Subject: Re: Colour problems with emacs-21.2 under Solaris and Motif Date: Wed, 4 Sep 2002 09:39:18 -0500 Sender: bug-gnu-emacs-admin@gnu.org Message-ID: <20020904143918.GA13925@cc.umanitoba.ca> References: <20020902223007.GA13804@cc.umanitoba.ca> NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1031150374 23073 127.0.0.1 (4 Sep 2002 14:39:34 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 4 Sep 2002 14:39:34 +0000 (UTC) Cc: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Return-path: Original-Received: from monty-python.gnu.org ([199.232.76.173]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 17mbJd-0005zy-00 for ; Wed, 04 Sep 2002 16:39:33 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.10) id 17mbLE-00050y-00; Wed, 04 Sep 2002 10:41:12 -0400 Original-Received: from list by monty-python.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.10) id 17mbJi-0004ea-00 for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 04 Sep 2002 10:39:38 -0400 Original-Received: from mail by monty-python.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.10) id 17mbJg-0004eH-00 for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 04 Sep 2002 10:39:38 -0400 Original-Received: from electra.cc.umanitoba.ca ([130.179.16.23]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.10) id 17mbJW-0004ab-00; Wed, 04 Sep 2002 10:39:26 -0400 Original-Received: from mira.cc.umanitoba.ca (mills@mira.cc.umanitoba.ca [130.179.16.8]) by electra.cc.umanitoba.ca (8.12.3/8.12.3) with ESMTP id g84EdMnp021218; Wed, 4 Sep 2002 09:39:22 -0500 (CDT) Original-Received: (from mills@localhost) by mira.cc.umanitoba.ca (8.12.0/8.12.0) id g84EdIuZ014863; Wed, 4 Sep 2002 09:39:18 -0500 (CDT) Original-To: Richard Stallman Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.25i X-DCC-UofM-Metrics: electra 1032; Body=2 Fuz1=2 Fuz2=2 Errors-To: bug-gnu-emacs-admin@gnu.org X-BeenThere: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.0.11 Precedence: bulk List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Id: Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.bugs:3415 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.bugs:3415 On Wed, Sep 04, 2002 at 10:20:20AM -0400, Richard Stallman wrote: > Only a Solaris user can try to debug these problems. > Would you like to try investigating one of them? > It seems likely that they all result from one or two causes, > so tracking down the cause of any one might lead you to a fix > that would solve all of them. Yes, I could do that. The place to start seems to be Sun's CDE X-window system. There are many aspects of X-windows with which I'm not familiar. I'd need some pointers. Is there a utility that shows all the colours that are available, for example? How would you recommend debugging this problem? -- -Gary Mills- -Unix Support- -U of M Academic Computing and Networking-