Re: About X colors
Jono (bagelboyj@geocities.com)
Wed, 01 Jul 1998 14:58:11 -0700
David Mihm wrote:
> On Mon, 29 Jun 1998, Jono wrote:
>
> > I dont know what happened but the other day I lost all my
> > colors in X. Sometimes when I start up, I get no color in my
> > xterm windows and when I shutdown X, I see all these errors
> > like:
> > Cannot alocate color entry for white...
> [snip]
> > http://members.tripod.com/~bagelboyj/colors.gif
>
> After looking at your gif , it appears you have changed the
> background pixmap - looks like a grey one ogirinally then the plasma one
> after). This is your problem - you only have X number of colours at the
> colour depth you are running, if you use most of them in the background,
> you don't have many left for the apps. I'd suggest running at 16bpp or
> greater for more colors; using the -install option of Netscape [uses it's
> own color map (you get a horrid flashing when moving out of this window
> however)]; or using less colours in your icons, and reducing the number of
> colours in the background. Those screnshots you see with pictures of
> forests and streams with a multitude of colours in other apps as well have
> graphics cards which allow for 32bpp and/or they have craftly minimized
> the number of colours in their icons.
>
I dont know what you are saying. It is not just netscape with this problem. It
is everything in X including xv, and even colors in HTML documents. I am using
8bpp and that what I have always been using.
>
>
> HTH
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