Bug 2534

Summary: XLIB_SKIP_ARGB_VISUALS=1 only works in console (NOT icons)
Product: xorg Reporter: ExecutorElassus <n.andrew.walsh>
Component: Lib/XlibAssignee: Xorg Project Team <xorg-team>
Status: RESOLVED NOTABUG QA Contact:
Severity: normal    
Priority: high CC: keithp, roland.mainz
Version: 6.8.2   
Hardware: x86 (IA32)   
OS: Linux (All)   
Whiteboard:
i915 platform: i915 features:

Description ExecutorElassus 2005-02-13 22:08:13 UTC 
after just installing xorg6.8.2 (through gentoo), i'm having a problem with all the programs that 
require the XLIB_SKIP_ARGB_VISUALS=1 flag. these are the usual suspects: xmms, gmplayer, and 
firefox. my problem is this: while i can start these applications from the console, i can NOT start them 
from an icon/button that calls the function. i'm using fvwm, so for me that would be a function string 
for fvwm, which would look like this:
'Exec exec XLIB_SKIP_ARGB_VISUALS=1 xmms'
this does exactly the same thing as running that command from the console, so i don't know why it 
wouldn't work. incidentally, i have the same problem with openoffice (though it doesn't require the 
XLIB-... string): i can only initialize it from a console.

any suggestions?

thanks,

EE
Comment 1 Adam Jackson 2005-02-16 19:02:52 UTC 
# i=`which xmms`
# mv $i $i.orig
# echo "XLIB_SKIP_ARGB_VISUALS=1 $i.orig" > $i
# chmod a+x $i

in other words, make a wrapper script.

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