Date: Sun, 24 Mar 1996 22:34:03 +1030 (CST) From: Michael Smith <msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au> To: lenzi@cwbone.bsi.com.br (Lenzi, Sergio) Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: More X question. Message-ID: <199603241204.WAA24440@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.91.960323171657.5563B-100000@lenzi> from "Lenzi, Sergio" at Mar 23, 96 09:17:02 pm
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Lenzi, Sergio stands accused of saying: > > > Hello all. > I'm not so "new" in X but one question remains unanwerd. > > 1) After starting netscape, when I try to start some X programs (xpaint, > for example) the program complains: No more colors ..... > > Question: Is there a way to increase the color map in the X server? Er. I'd suggest reading up a little more on how X manages colours. However, to answer the issue at hand; when you start X, it will request at most 4096 colours from the shared colourmap. On an 8-bit display, this means that there are no free colours in the shared colourmap once Netscape has started. There are three possible solutions here : - Don't run Netscape. (It's not really that wonderful...) - Upgrade your video hardware and run a 16-bit display. Expen$ive. - Run Netscape with the -install option. This will force it to use a private colourmap. It's yukky, but does what you want. (You can see the Netscape commandline options with 'nettscape -help') > Thanks a lot.. -- ]] Mike Smith, Software Engineer msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au [[ ]] Genesis Software genesis@atrad.adelaide.edu.au [[ ]] High-speed data acquisition and (GSM mobile) 0411-222-496 [[ ]] realtime instrument control (ph/fax) +61-8-267-3039 [[ ]] Collector of old Unix hardware. "Where are your PEZ?" The Tick [[
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