I run blackbox on a Mac clone running Linuxppc. When I start Linuxppc it
inherits information from the Mac OS. When I set Mac OS to "millions" of
colors (color depth of 24 bpp), everything looks fine in blackbox.
However, when I set the Mac OS to "thousands" of colors (color depth of
16 bpp), blackbox styles look color-starved. What I mean is that they
show many fewer colors and no gradients, to the point that I can't even
see some of the controls.
Yet it seems to me that blackbox should work fine with only 16 bpp. In
fact, my son, who runs blackbox on a PC, says he can hardly tell the
difference in blackbox between running X at depth of 16 and depth of 24.
So what am I doing wrong? Is there any way to change the color depth in
blackbox or does it inherit that from X?
I don't start X up myself; it is started by gdm. So I'm not really sure
what depth it is running in. All I know is what the Mac OS was running
in. I'm thinking maybe X is getting the color depth wrong and that
blackbox gets messed up by that. Is there any way to tell what color
depth X is running in?
Any help would be appreciated.
David
