Have try running your X in 16 bit colour mode!
runx -- bpp16 --
Or something like that
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Subject: Re: Hogging colours?
Author: sbb ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) at lon-mime
Date: 08/10/98 07:46
Dustin Lang writes:
>
> Hi,
>
> I was looking at some stuff I wrote a long time ago (before I had a sane
> operating system *grin*), that does something similar to 'xlock -mode
> swirl' (makes pretty wavy things). When I ran it in X, instead of
> hundreds of colour I got 4. It's not nearly so pretty in 4 colours.
> *pout* Does anyone know how to make java be more assertive in its demands
> to use many colours? My hardware is able to do 64k colours and at the
> moment I have X configured to use 256.
Do you already have Netscape running? It's known to be a colormap hog.
Can you restart your X session (I mean log all the way out, not just
restart your windowmanager) and just run your Java program w/o starting a bunch
of other X applications? Does that help?
Steve
