mwm doesn't like DECwindows icon bitmaps?

[Jim Gettys]

In article <8037 at prowest.propress.com> pan at prowest.propress.com (Philip A. Naecker) writes:
>I got OSF/Motif 1.0.3 for a DECstation 5000 from the folks at ICS.  When I start
>DECwindows applications, mwm complains about the icon bitmap being invalid and
>substitutes a default (uninteresting) bitmap for the icon.
>
>Is there a way to convert bitmaps from whatever DECwindows uses to the format
>that mwm will like?  Alternately, does someone have bitmaps that they can send
>to me, perhaps from the DEC-delivered Motif kit?
>
The problem is that the DECwindows clients were done before the ICCCM was
adopted, and create deep pixmaps rather than single plane bitmaps as
icons.  This will be fixed in future releases as the DECwindows applications
are converted to Motif and become ICCCM compliant.

				- Jim


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