Dick Hoogendijk wrote: > I haven't find an answer to a question that is important for me. > Something happens to colors in the debian distro that is NOT happening > in other linux distro's NOR FreeBSD. > > Blanking the screen in X (xlock -mode blank) leaves me NOT w/ a black > screen. It's blanked and *gray* ??? > > Starting Midnight Commander gives me a LIGHT.blue screen instead of a > DARK.blue as happens in all other distro's. > > I can go on like this. I get the feeling that *some* where kind of a > high bit is set that makes my screen give unnatural colors; that is, not > the colors that suppose to appear. > > The distor behaves OK on cli colors, so I guess it must be something in > X that is set different by debian. I have absolutely NO idea where to > look. > > The reason I ask here is that I really love fvwm and all my windows have > different background that I like to see the way I designed them ;-)) > > Can someone give me a hint where to look for this behaviour? >
A couple of ideas come immediately to mind: a) Perhaps X is running in 8bpp mode and is having trouble grabbing colors? I think the normal behavior in that case is to use black instead of a closely matching color, though. Run 'xdpyinfo' and look at the depth information, especially the line saying 'depth of root window'. b) Some display modes will cause some monitors to be extremely bright when they're normally much darker. If *everything* seems way too bright, and especially if everything that's supposed to be black looks gray, that's probably the case. (Be sure to use a large area of black to decide whether or not it's gray.) Since the black level is so high in this case, the only choices are to use another display mode or adjust the brightness on your monitor. Those are the best ideas I can think of right now. Debian's default rxvt configuration has colors that pretty closely match the default VGA palette, but if you think this might be the problem, you can grab my old rxvt .Xresources snippet from http://themuffin.net/xres/ (there's an xterm version there, too, but if you use the whole xterm config it'll make the terminal charset utf-8.) The color section in each matches the console exactly, since I'm picky like that. ;) -- Ben
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