From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Feb 8 22:56:02 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id WAA21727 for questions-outgoing; Sun, 8 Feb 1998 22:55:36 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from gdi.uoregon.edu (gdi.uoregon.edu [128.223.170.30]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id WAA21663 for ; Sun, 8 Feb 1998 22:55:25 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by gdi.uoregon.edu (8.8.7/8.8.8) with SMTP id WAA25208; Sun, 8 Feb 1998 22:55:15 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu) Date: Sun, 8 Feb 1998 22:55:15 -0800 (PST) From: Doug White Reply-To: Doug White To: Gary Dunn cc: freebsd-questions Subject: Re: X color pallets In-Reply-To: <34DAC00F.5BE3@aloha.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Thu, 5 Feb 1998, Gary Dunn wrote: > I got X working thanks to many of you. Special thanks for the pointers > to kde, which is very cool. > > 1. When I run Netscape, xtacy, and some other apps they complain about > not having access to colors. In all cases the fix involes allowing the > app to alter the system pallet, so colors in all windows are affected. > > 2. In-line images displayed by kde's web widget and Netscape appear to > be in 256 colors (or less!). > > So, how do I tune up my color? Add `-bpp ' to your X command line -- this will allow X to use higher bit depths, thus more colors. It by default uses 8 which is only 256 colors. See /etc/XF86Config, keywords `Depth' for what's currently configured on your box. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe questions" in the body of the message