Olivier Chapuis wrote: > On Mon, Nov 25, 2002 at 12:43:14PM -0800, Ben Sferrazza wrote: > > I'm trying to add a background to my menus and used the MenuFace > > TiledPixmap foo.xpm command under MenuStyle *. The pixmap seems to load > > OK, but it's displayed as the dithering of very few colors (looks > > awful). I'm using 2.5.4 on Solaris, and built fvwm with XPM and > > PNG support with no problem. My Icons, such as Netscape, appear in > > color with no problem. Do I have to explicitly specify somewhere in the > > .fvwm2rc file to use a certain number of colors for pixmaps? > > > > Do you have a screen which can use 256 colours only
Definitely not. I can view the pixmap file fine with 'xv'. Not to mention browsing the web or viewing images certainly shows more than 256 colors. > > Does the problem occur only when you use netscape or others apps which > use a lot of colours? Problem occurs when no other apps are even open. > > Is the result better with: > > Colorset 5 bg average, fg the_color_you_want_as_fg, TiledPixmap foo.xpm, nodither > Style * MenuColorset 5 > > fvwm has a lot of options for screens which can display only a few > colours at once. Unfortunately, the doc and some of these options > was written after 2.5.4. > > I suggest you use a recent snapshot and take a look at the doc (man > fvwm) for: -color-limit, -strict-color-limit, -allocate-pallet, > -static-pallet, -named-pallet. the 'nodither' option makes it look somewhat better, but it's still displayed with very few colors. When I remove 'nodither' it looks as it had when I used the MenuFace parameter of MenuStyle. I'll look more into these other options you mentioned thanks Ben
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