On Thu, Aug 10, 2000 at 01:11:11AM -0600, Chris Tucker wrote:
> Hello, I have BB running on RH Linux 6.1. My system can only
> display 256 colors, and blackbox seems to have issues with this when I
> run, say, gimp and netscape at the same time. It will give the correct
> colors for the foreground app but give all the background apps funky
> colors.
>
> Is there a way to remedy this?
>
The problem is that both gimp and netscape want full control
over the 256 colors in the palette, but only one can have them
at a time. So when gimp is in focus, it gets to control what
the 256 colors are; since changing the palette also changes
the colors that netscape was using, netscape is no longer using
the correct colors, and looks all funky.
You should have similar problems with most other graphically
intensive apps -- image viewers, etc.
Just to be sure this is the problem, though, you could try
running another window manager and see if you get the same
problem. If you don't, let me know.
Jeff Raven
