Re: Communicator - Xserver problem

[servis@purdue.edu]

*- Rainer Dorsch wrote about "Communicator - Xserver problem"
| 
| I faced a strange bug in Debian / Netscape Communicator / XServer (or 
| whatever). Since I have no idea, in which package the problem is, I post the 
| problem here.
| 
| What happens:
| 
| I installed Debian 2.0 from CDROM. After setting up X, I installed the 
| netscape4 and installed it with the comm*4.05*.tar.gz in the /tmp directory. 
| So far the same as on other Debian installations I did, but now
| 
| Starting mozilla (the navigator) brings up the navigator and all buttons in 
| the toolbar are black instead of green. But this is really the only color 
| problem I obsered (gimp startup looks good, xv startup looks good, and even 
| the pages loaded withing netscape look good!).
| 
[snip]
| 
| Does anybody know a test which could help to localize the problem on $PDM (as 
| stated, the problem occurs only in mozilla so far!)
| 
| 

Are you running X with 32 bit color?  If I remember correctly Netscape
buttons display as all black in 32 bit color depth.   The only work
around is to run in another color depth.  Someone correct me if I am
wrong.

-- 
Brian 
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