\begin{Sonam Chauhan}
> I've had a display problem with an application running as XWindows session
> off a remote AIX box. The colors look terrible (like 'negatives' of the real
> color)
>
> I've run the same X application off a Linux box and the colors show up fine
> So this is a problem specific to the AIX Xsessions. Is there some Xwindows
> setting that could fix this?
sounds like your app is using a "private colourmap".
are you running on an 8bit (256 colours) display?
your window manager should shift the colourmap to follow the mouse, so
when you focus the AIX app, *it* should look normal (but the rest of
your screen will look wierd).
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- Gus
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