On Fri, Aug 27, 1999 at 03:03:17PM +1200, Matthew Gregan wrote: > On Thu, Aug 26, 1999 at 05:18:39AM +0100, John Gay wrote: > > 7: At the moment, my daughter's PC is limited to 8 bit colour. Can E > > be configured to reduce any problems this causes? Right now, with > > fvwm95, if I open one app with lots of colours, than another one, > > the second complains there are not enough colours left and the > > screen keep switching different colours as the two app's borrow from > > each other. Is there some way to make the apps use the same colours? > > That's really dependant on the X server configuration. Most of the > themes for E! tend to use a *lot* of colours, so you'd probably find > the problem you described was worse using E!, but that's not to say > you can't use a low-colour theme... But the way apps handle colour > allocation is out of the hands of the window-manager.
Hmmm...I though E and most of GNOME used Raster's imlib, which means they do an excellent job of dithering, even in 8 bit color. At least that has been my expereince. It's the next best thing to re-writing X code to get applications to share colors nicely. Of course, a low color theme will free up color cells. And you can set imlib to use a very small color pallete, thus saving colors for other applications at the cost of appearance. Just run imlib_config. Just some thoughts, Robbie