[comp.windows.x] Xbob fails on Sun 3's

braun@m10ux.UUCP (MHx7079 mh) (09/02/87)

I am running X 10.4 on a Sun 3/110 color display,
and the "xbob" program fails.  It moves the bobs around, but does
not erase them.  As a result, the screen becomes covered by overlapping bobs.
i also have the Xerox patches installed to Xlib and the server.
They installed perfectly, but did not solve the problem.
Is there any fix for this?  The same problem occurs on all other Sun 3's
I tried.

I have another problem that shows up on a 3/280 (my server)
but not the 3/110.  Sometimes letters have boxes of a different color
around them. It seems to only happen with variable-width fonts, and
only if certain colors are used for the letters.

Are there any more patches out there for these problems?

-- 

Doug Braun		AT+T Bell Labs, Murray Hill, NJ
m10ux!braun		201 582-7039

troup@sainte-denis.uci.EDU (Dennis Troup) (09/03/87)

The reason that Xbob fails to erase the bobs is that some functions, 
XTileFill in Xbob's case, are not implemented in the Sun server. I have fixed
the program by drawing the background over the bobs the same way that the bobs
gets drawn. The man page Xsun(8c) documents the unimplemented functions.

				Dennis Troup
				troup@ics.uci.edu
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