> Chris Fenton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> I just paid the 850 NOK for applix-ware suite version 4.3 but
> it is
> colourless. I can not seem to "turn on the colour". I remember seeing
> a
> similar listing in the user lists - probably the same problem. It is
> not an
> urgent prblem but just irritating ?
> Chris Fenton
>
> How much is a NOK? Anyhow, it sounds like a luck of colors: are you
> running in 256 color, with netscape open?
This is an appropriate line of questioning. I think you're on the right
track.
Programs that use a lot of colors can leave others high and dry (or black and
white, as it
were!) I had the same problem with my Applixware installation. But the
problem was not at all in the installation or the software. It was in the
video card. I had a pretty weak
video card, and was maxing out it's capacity on junk like my root window
background and stuff. Applixware was suffering; and it looked like crap! The
same installation looked perfectly fine if run from another X terminal on this
network--evidence that it wasn't the Applixware software or a setting therein.
And sure enough, after I had changed out the video card of the client with
the grey Applix, all was well. Very well, I might add, with a Matrox
Millenium II with 8MB RAM. I'm not saying that you need to replace you video
card; but do consider the colors your using on your desktop, how much is
allocated to other apps or root window graphics, how beefy your video card is,
and at what color depth you are running your X server.
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