On Fri, Dec 17, 2010 at 12:08:40PM +0100, Lucio Chiappetti wrote: > I am noting a funny (and sort of annoying behaviour) when using > firefox and acrobat reader in a fvmw session under suse 11.3 (newly > installed). > > The topmost menu bar (File Edit ...) has white text onto black > background, although I do not have any X resource in .Xdefaults > which makes that. > The same colour applies to all pull down menus, and for acrobat also > to the bookmark window. > > The remaining menu bars and widget are normal (black on light grey). > > Actually the problem occurs both for a test user which imported all > my old personal configuration (.Xdefaults, .mozilla/* etc. .fvmw) as > well for a test user created afresh which has none of those files > (and uses for fvwm the system-bundled fvwmrc ... actually it is > using the one recently modified by Thomas Adams as a kind reply to a > recent post of mine). > > The problem does not occur if firefox or acrobat are run from KDE. > > So this makes me think of some sort of interference, like firefox > and acrobat are picking up those resources from somewhere in the > fvwm configuration, or not finding something they expect. > > I would be glad to override this with X resources, but I'm not sure > firefox and acrobat honour them in the usual way. I tried editres to > get the widget tree and it returns nothing. > > Any idea of the reason, and a possible workaround within .fvwm2rc ?
Sounds like the Colormap is used up. Try adding to your .fvwm2rc file: ColormapFocus FollowsFocus -- Thomas Adam
