On 18 Jul 2002 11:07:51 +0100, Tim Phipps wrote: > > > But, when I run my Xserver with depth > > 8 (and fvwm allocate these 216 colors) I *cannot* reproduce any > > problems, I can run netscape, xv, gimp, any gtk/gnome apps, any > > kde apps ..etc without any problems. > > You may be being helped by your graphics card/Xserver. If your setup > allows other colormaps to be active without deactivating the root > colormap then it could be that netscape etc have allocated a private > colormap and you don't notice. Other people on less advanced hardware will. > > It could be that your apps are sophisticated enough to cope with low > availability of colors. There are plenty of ancient CAD applications > around that fall over in a big heap if they don't get every color they > ask for.
What Dan and Tim say is that there is old hardware and old applications that cause a lot of color problems. What Olivier says is that on modern hardware and with modern applications FVWM looks better using a new colormap table method (no black colors for new colors anymore). And he wants to keep an FVWM color limit centrally. So maybe a solution is to find the correct condition to activate one or another code. Or just leave it the way it is now, but print a warning on the ColorLimit command saying it is now replaced with $FVWM_COLOR_LIMIT. On 18 Jul 2002 06:56:12 -0400, Dan Espen wrote: > > I would not expect to be able to use tinting or > gradients on an 8 bit display. It may be not an option for a user. For example, he uses someone else's configuration (fvwm-themes), or his own configuration from another hardware. He may expect the same config automagically to look tolerably well even on another hardware. Of course, I myself don't run neither 8bpp nor old hardware, so ignore my comments if they make no sence. Regards, Mikhael. -- Visit the official FVWM web page at <URL:http://www.fvwm.org/>. To unsubscribe from the list, send "unsubscribe fvwm-workers" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] To report problems, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
