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From: Islandman <schieb@centurytel.net>
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To: "Andresen,Jason R." <jandrese@mitre.org>
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Subject: Re: Why the ugly black-on-grey Netscape icons?
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Yep!  It was option #2 in my case. I switched from 24bpp to 16bpp and
Netscape is now "colorized".  Many thanks!

-Brian


"Andresen,Jason R." wrote:
> 
> Islandman wrote:
> >
> > How do I "colorize" my Netscape browser in FreeBSD 4.2?  It's not a big
> > deal to be sure but the ugly lack of color is buggin me...
> >
> > Thanks in advance!
> > -Brian
> >
> > % gnome-moz-remote --newwin "" --version
> > Gnome gnome-moz-remote 1.2.8
> >
> > % netscape -v
> > Netscape 4.76/U.S., 06-Oct-00; (c) 1995-2000 Netscape Communications
> > Corp.
> 
> There are two possiblites:
> 1. You are running in 8bpp "pesudo-color" mode.  If this is the case,
> you can
> do one of two things:
>         a. Incrase the color depth of your display (in /etc/XF86Config)
>         b. Run Netscape with a local colormap (netscape -install), however this
> will
>            result in some colormap flashing when you move your cursor in and
> out of the
>            netscape window.
> 2. You are running 24bpp mode.  Netscape has a bug that prevents it from
> working correctly
> in this mode.  Try dropping down to 16bpp in /etc/XF86Config.
> 
> --
>    _  _    _  ___  ____  ___   ______________________________________
>   / \/ \  | ||_ _||  _ \|___| | Jason Andresen -- jandrese@mitre.org
>  / /\/\ \ | | | | | |/ /|_|_  | Views expressed may not reflect those
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