On Mon, Nov 25, 2002 at 03:58:12PM -0800, Ben Sferrazza wrote:
> 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.
>
>
> >
> > 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
>
The options I mention are useful only with screen with a few colours
(depth 8 screen). xdpyinfo or PrintInfo Colors (in a FvwmConsole,
output into stderr) give the information about the depth you have.
The problem is not the one I thought. Maybe a image loader bug.
Olivier
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Received on Tue Nov 26 2002 - 01:03:32 GMT