[2889] in RedHat Linux List
Netscape and colors
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Sheldon E. Newhouse)
Tue Nov 5 23:48:53 1996
Date: Tue, 5 Nov 1996 23:46:08 -0500
From: "Sheldon E. Newhouse" <sen1@math.msu.edu>
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I just confirmed on my system what others have said again and again
about Netscape-3.0 and allocation of colors.
I have a Matrox Millenium, 4 MB RAM, running Accelerated-X and the card can
support 16 million colors at 1200x1024, perhaps more. When I bring up
other applications and no Netscape, I can run many, many windows with no
degradation of colors, resolution at all.
Having Netscape-3.0 run either iconified or not, causes many 'cannot
allocate background color' messages. Some of my other programs are in
fact not usable at all. This problem goes away if I run Netscape as
netscape -install
but, then the virtual screen containing Netscape has terrible background
colors, and as I move the mouse in and out of the Netscape window, the
background colors shift on and off in an annoying way. Interestingly,
in this mode the background problems disappear which I iconify
Netscape.
It seems that the best solution is to open other applications first, and
just not keep the netscape window alive except when I want to browse.
Right now, Netscape is the best browser I have seen (I haven't tried Red
Baron yet), and it is a shame that it hogs the colors and won't
dynamically allocate what it needs.
I am looking forward to better stuff in the future.
-sen
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