[2897] in RedHat Linux List
Re: Netscape and colors
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Rick Smith)
Wed Nov 6 00:46:24 1996
From: Rick Smith <rls3f@watt.seas.virginia.edu>
To: redhat-list@redhat.com
Date: Wed, 6 Nov 1996 00:43:13 -0500 (EST)
In-Reply-To: <199611060446.XAA12887@chaos> from "Sheldon E. Newhouse" at Nov 5, 96 11:46:08 pm
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According to Sheldon E. Newhouse:
>
> 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.
If you don't know already, this option allows Netscape to
install its own private colormap. The "swapping" of colormaps
is the annoying shiting you are referring to. This is what is
_supposed_ to happen.
>
> 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.
>
That _is_ what it does when you use the -install option.
Netscape is color hungry and until they improve its color
allocation methods for X, we will have to tweak our systems to
accommodate its appetite. Colormap flashing is a pain! Also, make
sure you are using the depth you think you are using.
> I am looking forward to better stuff in the future.
>
> -sen
>
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