Dominik Vogt <fvwm@fvwm.org> writes: > On Thu, May 08, 2003 at 11:13:54PM +0200, Marcus Lundblad wrote: > > It seems my AGP port stopped worked. > > So now I sit with an old S3 card I found in a drawer in the > > sysadmin's room at work. > > The card has only 1 MB VRAM. So I tried to run 1024x768 in 8-bit mode. > > But colours in FVWM is screwed up (white is blue). Does it depend on the > > X-server? (The test provided by Xconfigurator (Redhat) seems quite OK). > > > > I use FvwmBacker to show backround XPMs, but should FVWM allocate it's > > colourmap before, since FvwmBacker is started from FVWM? > > > > Or do I need to tell FVWM to use more colours? > > No, you want to tell it to use *less* colours. Try starting fvwm > with "--color-limit <number of colours>" to reduce the number of > colours used in pictures. You should also use private colour maps > on all applications that support it (a la "netscape -install") and > refine the colours used in your applications so that they all use > the same colours. > > > What I find is the command line option -l. > > It says in the manpage it uses colourcubes, doesn't this mean pure white > > should be available. > > Pure black and white are always available. Hm.
I think, if the application requests a read-write color, there may be a second attempt to allocate another white color cell. -- Dan Espen E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- 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]
