> On Mon, 3 May 1999, Andreas Vox wrote:
> > I compiled Dia-41 and Dia-40 on Solaris 2.6 (Ultra1, gtk-1.1.13,
> > imlib-1.9.4, gcc-2.7.2.3)
> > but the background of the drawing pane is always black. When I try to
> > change the background color,
> > the color selection widget works fine, but the main control only shows
> > some reddish colors.
> > When I export to EPS, the diagram looks ok, also.
>
> This seems strange. The background should (currently) always be white.
> The 'background' color-selection you're refering to is used for the
> background/inside of objects that are drawn.
>
> Does the rest of the program work, except for the background being black.
> Does color work correctly on other objects in the diagram.
>
> > Is this a known bug? If I could get any hints where to start looking I'd
> > help correcting it.
> > If you need more information (config.status, screen shots, ...) just
> > ask.
>
> I haven't seen it before. I forwarded it to the mailng-list to see if
> anyone else had seen it.
>
> I suspect it's a problem with some strange X visual. Could you send me a
> dump of the output from xdpyinfo.
I use an old version of WindowMaker on Solaris with only 8bit color depth.
When a program installs its own color map, the foreground and background
colors get switched.
I recommend for the person to try using a different window manager or a
different X server and see if that doesn't change its behavior.
-Ben
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