[22745] in Athena Bugs
Re: sun4 9.2.7: Creating a Window
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Roger A. Roach)
Wed Jul 2 14:57:42 2003
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To: Greg Hudson <ghudson@MIT.EDU>
cc: "Roger A. Roach" <rar@MIT.EDU>, bugs@MIT.EDU
In-Reply-To: Your message of "02 Jul 2003 14:55:41 EDT."
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Date: Wed, 02 Jul 2003 14:57:40 -0400
From: "Roger A. Roach" <rar@MIT.EDU>
That's fine. It is not a bother. Just thought you should know.
> Thanks for reporting this. Unfortunately, I don't think the error
> message can easily be suppressed except by providing the RENDER
> extension on Solaris. We expect that to be possible some time in the
> next few months when Sun comes out with patches to more of their video
> drivers to support 32-bit pixmaps, but in the meantime, it will have to
> be ugly this way.
>
> If you use the "prompt" launcher from the panel at the bottom of the
> screen, you won't see an error message. (Not because the error message
> isn't generated, but because the panel program generates so many other
> useless error messages that we've suppressed all of them. We don't
> really want to do that with sawfish, since it usually only generates
> error messages when they're important.)
>
