[plug] Why are my widgets furry?

[Greg Gamble]

> Greg Gamble wrote:
> >   We are currently running Linux 2.0.36 from a Debian distro on
> > a Toshiba Portege 3010CT (a portable PC) ... but we are very unhappy
> > with the look of for example the scroll bars in xterms. They look
> > `fuzzy', quite unlike the look on our old portable PC.
> >   Has anyone experienced this sort of problem? ... have any idea on
> > what I'm talking about? ... or better still know how to fix it?
> >   I tried installing the neXTaw widgets (from Debian's nextawg and
> > aw-wrappers package) ... but though they look better, they are still
> > fuzzy. Yes ... we are operating at 16bpp, so we should have enough
> > colours.
> 
On Thu, 25 Mar 1999, Leon Brooks wrote:
> Try either 8 or 24bpp; the 16bpp display tends to get dithered and so
> fuzzy.

Thanks Leon,

  Ok ... I tried both 8 and 24bpp and I still get the fuzziness. However,
I have now had some success. I copied the old binaries (from a 2yo
Slackware distro with Linux 2.0.28) for xload and xapm ... and they look
right. I tried copying the xterm/color_xterm binaries across also (which
turned out to require a libtermcap library which I copied across also)
but they just seg-faulted :(
  This dithering idea might be what's wrong, but the coloured bounding
boxes of the Debian xload, xapm, xterm all come up ok. 
  Any further clues? ... perhaps we should just dump Debian and try the
latest SlackWare?? (a bit drastic). Do all the X binaries come from the
one place? i.e. shouldn't they be the same?
 
  Regards,
  Greg Gamble
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