[26457] in Athena Bugs
Re: sun4 9.4.9: xclock
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Roger A. Roach)
Fri Jun 17 12:09:47 2005
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From: "Roger A. Roach" <rar@mit.edu>
Date: Fri, 17 Jun 2005 12:07:26 -0400
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Thanks. I have made the change. Just thought you might want to add
this to the notes in case others have the problem.
On Jun 17, 2005, at 12:05 PM, Greg Hudson wrote:
> On Fri, 2005-06-17 at 11:54 -0400, Roger A. Roach wrote:
>> What's wrong:
>> The "-reverse" options seems to have gone away and is being ignored.
>
> We understand this issue, but don't have a good way of fixing it.
> There
> are two things going on:
>
> * GNOME now specifies X resources to make X toolkit applications
> match
> the gtk theme.
>
> * When the X toolkit sees specifications of the foreground and
> background color (either in X resources or on the command line), as
> well
> as a reverse video option, it sets the reverse video bit but does not
> flip the specified foreground and background color. This is a
> long-standing bug.
>
> Your best option is to start using specified foreground and background
> colors when starting xclock, instead of relying on -reverse.
>
