Re: FVWM: Pixmap not shown with many colors

From: Olivier Chapuis <olivier.chapuis_at_free.fr>
Date: Mon, 25 Nov 2002 22:55:35 +0100

On Mon, Nov 25, 2002 at 12:43:14PM -0800, Ben Sferrazza wrote:
> I'm trying to add a background to my menus and used the MenuFace
> TiledPixmap foo.xpm command under MenuStyle *. The pixmap seems to load
> OK, but it's displayed as the dithering of very few colors (looks
> awful). I'm using 2.5.4 on Solaris, and built fvwm with XPM and
> PNG support with no problem. My Icons, such as Netscape, appear in
> color with no problem. Do I have to explicitly specify somewhere in the
> .fvwm2rc file to use a certain number of colors for pixmaps?
>

Do you have a screen which can use 256 colours only?

Does the problem occur only when you use netscape or others apps which
use a lot of colours?

Is the result better with:

Colorset 5 bg average, fg the_color_you_want_as_fg, TiledPixmap foo.xpm, nodither
Style * MenuColorset 5

fvwm has a lot of options for screens which can display only a few
colours at once. Unfortunately, the doc and some of these options
was written after 2.5.4.

I suggest you use a recent snapshot and take a look at the doc (man
fvwm) for: -color-limit, -strict-color-limit, -allocate-pallet,
-static-pallet, -named-pallet.

Regards, Olivier
 
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Received on Mon Nov 25 2002 - 17:30:17 GMT

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