On 18 Jan Ben Winslow wrote: > A couple of ideas come immediately to mind: > > a) Perhaps X is running in 8bpp mode and is having trouble grabbing > colors?
Nope.. running 24bpp > 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. ;) I will fetch these files today to have a closer look. In the meantime I found out that marking a line in debians Xresources quoted hereunder helps to get rid off the lightblue background in mc and returns the normal darkblue screen. Blanking the screen w/ password still gives a gray background when asked for the passwd. =-=-=-=- ! /etc/X11/Xresources/xfree86-common ! load color-specific resources for clients that have them #ifdef COLOR #*customization: -color <-- THE unwanted rule.. #endif =-=-=-=- I'm still puzzled why the colors of my windows are so different from the ones running under freebsd, but that's another thread. -- dick -- http://www.nagual.st/ -- PGP/GnuPG key: F86289CE ++ Running FreeBSD 4.7 ++ Debian GNU/Linux (Woody) -- 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]
