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 > -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org