On Tue, Nov 26, 2002 at 01:09:45PM +1100, Cameron Simpson wrote:
> On 15:58 25 Nov 2002, Ben Sferrazza <bsferraz_at_lsil.com> 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 would add that I am in the same boat. I have some backdrops that never seem
> to come out with correct colour (look badly dithered to a small colourmap, very garish).
> Whilend others that come out fine.
>
> I'm fairly sure that it's image specific. I'll try to verify this later
> today and if so, email you a "good" PNG and a "bad" PNG. With your
> consent, naturally - they're probably large. And I haven't eliminated
> mogrify from suspicion at my end yet, but I suspect it's not the culprit.
>
Yes you can send me images. If there are large just to me.
Also, the output of xdpyinfo and PrintInfo Colors (fvwm cmd)
can be useful as well as your machine architecture and os.
> As with Ben, I'm using 2.5.4, full colour display.
>
> I'm using a PNG generated from a JPG with ImageMagick's modulate command, thus:
>
> mogrify -modulate 70 -format PNG tmpfile.jpg
>
> and applying it like this:
>
> ColorSet 0 AspectPixmap "tmpfile.png"
>
> Internally, is FVWM on a full colour display making some kind of mapped
> colour image when it sets up the Pixmap for a menu background?
No.
Olivier
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Received on Tue Nov 26 2002 - 01:03:40 GMT