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color and color depth

> It seems that I can only use quite limited set of colors. Can you tell
> me how I can use more colors?

You don't mention what hardware or software you are using, so guessing that you have a Sun workstation of some kind, I suggest you trawl the archives for "framebuffer" and take a look at the man pages for m64config or a similar command, depending on your framebuffer type.

This will show you how to change your video setting, such as resolution, refresh rate and colour depth.

For now, I'll take a stab and guess that you are using netscape. If so, you should either start netscape after you've started all other clients, so they'll have first grabs on the colour map, or run netscape with the "-install" option and live with the colour switching.

If you give some more information, we may be able to help more.

Andrew J. Caines

color and color depth

Have you used xdpyinfo to verify that your hardware is capable of greater than 8bit colordepth? Is you're running older hardware, it probably isn't. If you're running a newer Sun, "man -k fbconfig" might be helpful.

If it's not hardware, it's probably software :-). Some applications, like Netscape, are notorious for hogging the colormap. Read the man pages for an "owncmap" flag to tell those apps to ask for a private colormap.

Paul R. Joslin