Olivier Chapuis wrote:
> 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
Definitely not. I can view the pixmap file fine with 'xv'. Not to mention
browsing the web or viewing images certainly shows more than 256 colors.
>
> Does the problem occur only when you use netscape or others apps which
> use a lot of colours?
Problem occurs when no other apps are even open.
>
> 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.
the 'nodither' option makes it look somewhat better, but it's still displayed with
very few colors. When I remove 'nodither' it looks as it had when I used the
MenuFace parameter of MenuStyle. I'll look more into these other options you
mentioned
thanks
Ben
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Received on Mon Nov 25 2002 - 17:59:41 GMT