Hello Andreas,

which X-Server do you use?
Have you tried if this problem also occurs if you use another X-Server?

Regards
Carsten

On Mon, May 21, 2012 at 10:22:49AM +0200, Andreas von Heydwolff wrote:
> Package: icedove
> Version: 11.0-1
> Severity: important
> 
> Since two weeks or so displayed messages have inverted colors in full html, 
> and
> the same is true for embedded images, be it headers from other servers or jpg
> attachments and the like. This is a problem even in safe-mode with disabled
> add-ons. There is a detail though, that may help in debugging: The add-on
> "Quick locale switcher" displays a country flag in the bottom right corner of
> the gui. The colors of that flag are also inverted but change to the correct
> ones when I hover with the mouse over the flag. Other elements of the gui are
> displayed in the right colors.
> 
> My setup is special in that I access Icedove on a remote desktop via a Sun Ray
> ultra thin client (formerly by SUN, now Oracle) which has fixed color masks. I
> remember this problem occured a few years ago with Flash Player and Sun Rays
> and has been fixed by Adobe. Today the problem only occurs in icedove and
> irrespective of starting it in KDE 4.8.3 or in Fluxbox, so it is not primarily
> a Sun Ray problem but it becomes visible through using it. The "non-standard"
> color mask of Sun Ray's X Server is using
> 
>         red, green, blue masks: 0xff, 0xff00, 0xff0000
> 
> instead of the the much more common
> 
>         red, green, blue masks: 0xff0000, 0xff00, 0xff
> 
> If I remember correctly, a color mask can be set statically or dynamically, 
> and
> I assume that in one component of icedove or a lib from the dependencies the
> color mask was changed to a fixed one. I have tested icedove versions 3 and 10
> from Squeeze and Wheezy, and the behavior is the same - everything worked
> perfectly though until a few weeks ago.
> 
> My apologies for reporting the bug here if it is not an Icedove issue, but I
> can see the problem only in icedove and I have not the expertise to identify
> which other library could cause the problem. If pointed in the right direction
> I will gladly report the bug against the proper package.
> 
> Greetings,
> Andreas v.Heydwolff
> 


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