Re: Different colormode between matchbox and X apps

Hi;

Quick que - is this a 16bpp framebuffer ?

If so, try the patch here to libmatchbox; 

http://svn.o-hand.com/repos/poky/trunk/openembedded/packages/libmatchbox/files/16bppfixes.patch

Please let me know if that helps.

  -- Matthew 

On Sat, 2006-04-01 at 19:06 +0200, Michael Opdenacker wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I am trying to make a demo based on a GPE / Familiar 0.8.3 snapshot image.
> 
> My framebuffer driver has a BGRA mode (instead of the more common RGB or
> RGBA modes). While all X applications that I run (mainly GPE apps) are
> displayed with correct colors, matchbox-window-manager and
> matchbox-desktop are using a different colorset, displaying desktop
> icons and windows decorations with wrong colors (see
> http://free-electrons.com/issues/matchbox-apr1-2006/screen.jpg).
> 
> So, it seems that Matchbox is considering my framebuffer as RGB instead
> of BGR. Is matchbox trying to get a private colormap, instead of using
> the default one from X?
> 
> I checked the command line options for matchbox-window-manager and
> matchbox-desktop, but didn't find anything about the colormap...
> 
> Here are the versions I'm using.
> 
> matchbox-applet-inputmanager - 0.6-r0 -
> matchbox-common - 0.9.1-r0 -
> matchbox-desktop - 0.9.1-r0 -
> matchbox-panel-hacks - 0.3-1-r4 -
> matchbox-panel-manager - 0.1-r0 -
> matchbox-themes-gtk - 1.0-r0 -
> matchbox-wm - 0.9.5+cvs-20051212-r1 -
> 
> Any hint for having the desktop and window decoration colors displayed
> in a correct way?
> 
>     Thanks in advance,
> 
>     Cheers,
> 
>     Michael.
> 

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