On Mon, Nov 25, 2002 at 03:58:12PM -0800, Ben Sferrazza wrote: > 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. > > > > > > 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 >
The options I mention are useful only with screen with a few colours (depth 8 screen). xdpyinfo or PrintInfo Colors (in a FvwmConsole, output into stderr) give the information about the depth you have. The problem is not the one I thought. Maybe a image loader bug. Olivier -- Visit the official FVWM web page at <URL: http://www.fvwm.org/>. To unsubscribe from the list, send "unsubscribe fvwm" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] To report problems, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
