Re: X Windows has strange color scheme

2003-02-21 Thread Eric G. Miller
On Thu, Feb 20, 2003 at 11:25:32PM +0100, Robert Ewald wrote: > It might be just a wild guess, but could it be that you hit CTRL-ALT-+ at some > point and switched the color depth to 8? Then strange colors like this, which > turn normal on clicking in the window would be explainable. > just hit

Re: X Windows has strange color scheme

2003-02-21 Thread Robert Ewald
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Re: X Windows has strange color scheme

2003-02-20 Thread Robert Storey
>On Thu, Feb 20, 2003 at 04:17:22AM -0800, Phil Newcombe wrote: > >I can't seem to change color depths either. No matter what I do - use I know this is cheating, but what happens when you boot the machine with a Knoppix CD? - Robert Storey -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] wit

Re: X Windows has strange color scheme

2003-02-20 Thread Kent West
Phil Newcombe wrote: I can't seem to change color depths either. No matter what I do - use -bpp on the command line or change the color depth line in XF86Config-4 manually - nothing changes. And when I click on xsetroot in the window menu it changes to a kind of coarse gray (from the lime-

Re: X Windows has strange color scheme

2003-02-20 Thread Phil Newcombe
Nathan E Norman wrote: On Thu, Feb 20, 2003 at 04:17:22AM -0800, Phil Newcombe wrote: I can't seem to change color depths either. No matter what I do - use -bpp on the command line or change the color depth line in XF86Config-4 manually - nothing changes. And when I click on xsetroot in

Re: X Windows has strange color scheme

2003-02-20 Thread Kent West
Paul Johnson wrote: On Thu, Feb 20, 2003 at 01:21:30PM +, Glyn Millington wrote: Have you tried pressing the Degauss button on your monitor? Glyn Huh? Speak up, man! Some monitors have a degauss button to manually degauss (demagnetize) the picture tube. Newer monitors ge

Re: X Windows has strange color scheme

2003-02-20 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Thu, Feb 20, 2003 at 04:17:22AM -0800, Phil Newcombe wrote: > Hi all - I'm kind of new to this list but I've been using Debian since > 2.0 and now I've got a problem I can't figure out. I was running > unstable up until last month with no noticeable problems but I decided, > because I didn't

Re: X Windows has strange color scheme

2003-02-20 Thread Paul Johnson
On Thu, Feb 20, 2003 at 01:21:30PM +, Glyn Millington wrote: > > Have you tried pressing the Degauss button on your monitor? > Glyn Huh? Speak up, man! -- .''`. Baloo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> : :' :proud Debian admin and user `. `'` `- Debian - when you have better things to do than

Re: X Windows has strange color scheme

2003-02-20 Thread Glyn Millington
Paul Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Thu, Feb 20, 2003 at 04:17:22AM -0800, Phil Newcombe wrote: >> Well everything works - I've got the 2.4.20 kernel and it runs and X >> runs - but, it has this really weird 'rainbow' like color scheme running >> through everything. The root window co

Re: X Windows has strange color scheme

2003-02-20 Thread Paul Johnson
On Thu, Feb 20, 2003 at 04:17:22AM -0800, Phil Newcombe wrote: > Well everything works - I've got the 2.4.20 kernel and it runs and X > runs - but, it has this really weird 'rainbow' like color scheme running > through everything. The root window comes up lime-green with the window > borders a

X Windows has strange color scheme

2003-02-20 Thread Phil Newcombe
Hi all - I'm kind of new to this list but I've been using Debian since 2.0 and now I've got a problem I can't figure out. I was running unstable up until last month with no noticeable problems but I decided, because I didn't want to get any problems, to down-grade to testing and update my inst