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Re: Default colours in X11 frames?


From: David Kastrup
Subject: Re: Default colours in X11 frames?
Date: Mon, 21 Jul 2008 15:30:19 +0200
User-agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.0.60 (gnu/linux)

James Cloos <address@hidden> writes:

>>>>>> "David" == David De La Harpe Golden <address@hidden> writes:
>
> David> Do
> David> (color-values "blue")
> David> and
> David> (color-values "firebrick")
>
> David> return the same values on pre- and post- merge builds for you?
>
> Thanks.  That was the cluebat I needed.
>
> It allowed me to narrow the problem down to XParseColor(3x).
>
> In effect, instead of matching the equivilent of the pcre /^colour$/i
> it is doing the equivilent of the pcre /^colour/i on a shuffle of the
> colour list.
>
> So when I ask for 'firebrick' it gived me 'firebrick2'.  And for 'blue'
> it returns 'blue violet' aka 'BlueViolet'.
>
> I've tracked down the bug (in the X server) and will fix it.

Will you fix it in Emacs or in X?  If the latter: is there a workaround
one could use in Emacs for people having an unfixed X?  If the former:
will you report this to whoever is working on the X server?

Thanks,

-- 
David Kastrup




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