Sorry for the delay! On 2023/04/05 16:04:36 -0300, Lucas de Sena <lu...@seninha.org> wrote: > > One thing that I could never make to work is dmenu: I have it > > installed, but upon ctrl-g I get this error printed on the terminal > > where I started xfiles: > > > > X Error of failed request: BadMatch (invalid parameter attributes) > > Major opcode of failed request: 62 (X_CopyArea) > > Serial number of failed request: 69 > > Current serial number in output stream: 70 > > > > but this is not an issue with the port :) > > That's a bug on dmenu side. > > When asked to be embedded into another window, dmenu creates its own > window directly inside the embedder/parent window, inheriting the > colormap, color depth and visual from it. However, all the drawing > operations that dmenu does use the default colormap, color depth and > visual from X11's root window. > > The error happens because XFiles (the embedder window) and consequenctly > dmenu (the embedded window) have a 32-bit color depth, with alpha > channel for transparency; while the root window has a 24-bit color > depth, without alpha channel. When commiting the drawing into dmenu's > window with the X_CopyArea request, a BadMatch error occurs (because the > colormap and depth do not match). > > A solution for dmenu developers could be to either simply use the > default X11 colormap, color depth, and visual from the root window > (rather than inheriting from the parent); or create the dmenu window > under X11 root window and them reparent it to the embedder. > > dmenu's alpha patch may fix this bug, but I have not tried it.
I tried with a dmenu clone I wrote some time ago and with that it works fine :) (probably because it uses 32-bit color depth too, dunno) > > P.S.: maybe, since xfiles(1) mentions xfilesctl and xfilesthumb we > > could install them in /usr/local/bin and tell users to put their > > own modified version in ~/bin if wanted. It'd be slightly more > > user-friendly I guess. > > The user is encouraged to build their own xfilesctl and xfilesthumb > script, so I think we should install them as examples rather than > installing them on the system. Agreed I'm attaching a slightly tweaked version your port: - alphabetically sorted MAKE_FLAGS entries - README tweaked to follow the standard template, plus some other minor tweaks. If you're fine with it, the attached port is ok op@ to import. Thanks!
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