Date: Mon, 30 Aug 1999 23:51:07 -0400 From: Dutch Collins <dutch@charm.net> To: Doug <Doug@gorean.org> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Netscape hoggin' up all my colors Message-ID: <37CB512B.A858087C@charm.net> References: <Pine.BSF.4.10.9908301943420.11710-100000@dt010nb9.san.rr.com>
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Doug wrote: > > I'm using X 3.3.4 in 16 bpp and KDE 1.1.1 and trying to start some > openwin apps on our sun boxes here at work. If I don't have netscape > running I can get the apps in full, living color on my local desktop. If I > do have netscape running I get lots of: > > Error: Unable to allocate control colors for colormap segment > > errors, and the colors for the sun apps are all scrambled to the point of > being unusable. > > Someone at work said that there is a way to get netscape not to > hog all the colors, but I can't find the option. I tried -install, but > that was a major disaster. Interestingly, if I start a sun X app first, > then start netscape they play nicely together, so I know it's possible. > Obviously I could just always do it in that order, but if there is a way > to get netscape to always share the colormap with a setting I'd prefer > that. > > Any help appreciated, > > Doug > -- > "My mama told me, my mama said, 'don't cry.' She said, 'you're too young a man > to have as many women you got.' I looked at my mother dear and didn't even > crack a smile. I said, 'If women kill me, I don't mind dyin!'" > > - John Belushi as "Joliet" Jake Blues, "I Don't Know" This problem has been driving me crazy. If I load gimp first, communicator 4.61 second, all is normal. Reverse and gimp has weird colors for the KDE vt, and gimp's windows. I have a diamond speedstar64/2000 1meg and a plain 486/100 proc & mb. I have gotten this far. http://home.netscape.com/eng/mozilla/4.61/relnotes/windows-4.61.html#unix In short, netscape does some color swapping, I think, I just got to this page. good luck. -d --- 4 days 'till the *beach* To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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