Nathan Clemons <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> typed:
> 2.) Colormaps and private colormaps. The symptoms that you are
> speaking of which are indicitive of the application using it's own
> private colormap. The odd color shift will occur whenever you switch
> in and out of the "application". Since private colormaps are maintained
> by the app, not the WM, they decide what is within the bounds of
> the app.... and I can pretty much theorize with accuracy that they don't
> include the titlebar etc. which the WM controls.
Thanks for the response! Buying hardware for this computer
(at work) isn't really feasible for more reasons than one.
With that said..
Well, I think I understand what you're saying about
colormaps. Let me clarify the frustrating part:
Let's say, for instance, I'm in "click to focus":
My colors all look normal, except for the offending
application. Those colors are messed up, obviously. This
is the "private colormap" issue.
Now, I click on the titlebar of the application, and
everything switches. Now, the colors of the offending
application are okay, and everything else is messed up.
Okay, it's a pain, but not so bad.
However, as I move my mouse from the titlebar to the
application, I have to pass through the "border" which lies
between the titlebar and the application. As I go through
this region, the colormap switches again. Now, with my
mouse on the application, the colors are _messed up_ in the
application, and correct in the background! Even though
that window currently has the "focus", the wrong colormap is
active.
This is not the behavior I would expect. I don't mind the
"flashing" between colormaps, I guess that's to be expected.
It just takes some extra "mousework" to get the current app
and the appropriate colormap in sync. It basically takes an
extra mouseclick on the window (not the titlebar), which can
be frustrating when the application is popping up dialog
boxes.
I would expect that the application that currently has focus
would also dictate which color map was being used. There
seems to be some inconsistency there.
Does this make sense?
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Chris Grossmann
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