Hi Alan,
Welcome to Java and Linux =)
I'm not sure what your question was, but I can clear up a couple things:
Although your display can show several million colors, it is limited to
displaying only a certain number of colors at the same time, usually 256
if you have an 8-bit color depth.
The
...and everything else Linux :-) I've been trying to run a simple
graphics program from the Linux:first contact book (which seems
excellent, btw), using their BasicGraphics class. It displays the
window, with a scale along the side, then pops up a message
saying it can't allocate a background
