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Re: Allocating color problems
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (BORG)
Sun Nov 3 17:27:12 1996
Date: Sun, 03 Nov 1996 14:19:09 -0800
From: BORG <"vladimip "@iceonline.com>
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Justin Dobbs wrote:
>
> What would be cooler would be a window manager that manages the colormap
Window mamager doesn't manage anything except windows
and modules, hence the name of it. Color Palettes are
managed by X servers.
> in an intelligent manner. For instance, when Netscape was minimized, its
> colormap entries would be saved and freed up, and when it was restored the
Netscape started with -install switch already does that.
> colormap would be brought back, so that people can still use 8bit for
> speed but still enjoy the ability to run several colorful programs
> simultaneously, even if the colors weren't that great and they couldn't be
That's the same as 'have your cake and eat it'. :)
You want to be able to open a picture containing
2,432,123 different colors (more than your eye can
actually see!) on a 256 color display and expect
other programs to have enough colors for them as well.
Nope, doesn't work very well. :( Buy a good videocard.
I saw some Mach64 Xpressions with 2MB DRAM for $130
Canadian on a computer swap several days ago. They
easily go to 16bpp and 1024x768.
> displayed at the same time. Does such a program exist? Would something
> like this work?
A partial solution can be "xstdcmap -a" added to your
~/.Xclients. It has a man page too.
Regards,
Vlad
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