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Work-around for netscape color hogging (was netscape and colors)
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jeff Patterson)
Wed Nov 6 13:41:05 1996
Date: Wed, 06 Nov 1996 10:38:23 -0800
From: Jeff Patterson <jpat@sr.hp.com>
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Try using the -visual option with netscape. Your xptyinfo lists 6
visuals available. I use netscape -visual TrueColor which forces
netscape to use a different color map without the psycodelic background
changes -install causes. Works for me.
> number of visuals: 6
> default visual id: 0x20
> visual:
> visual id: 0x20
> class: PseudoColor
> depth: 8 planes
> available colormap entries: 256
> red, green, blue masks: 0x0, 0x0, 0x0
> significant bits in color specification: 8 bits
> visual:
> visual id: 0x21
> class: GrayScale
> depth: 8 planes
> available colormap entries: 256
> red, green, blue masks: 0x0, 0x0, 0x0
> significant bits in color specification: 8 bits
> visual:
> visual id: 0x22
> class: StaticColor
> depth: 8 planes
> available colormap entries: 256
> red, green, blue masks: 0x0, 0x0, 0x0
> significant bits in color specification: 8 bits
> visual:
> visual id: 0x23
> class: StaticGray
> depth: 8 planes
> available colormap entries: 256
> red, green, blue masks: 0x0, 0x0, 0x0
> significant bits in color specification: 8 bits
> visual:
> visual id: 0x24
> class: TrueColor
> depth: 8 planes
> available colormap entries: 8 per subfield
> red, green, blue masks: 0xe0, 0x1c, 0x3
> significant bits in color specification: 8 bits
> visual:
> visual id: 0x25
> class: DirectColor
> depth: 8 planes
> available colormap entries: 8 per subfield
> red, green, blue masks: 0xe0, 0x1c, 0x3
> significant bits in color specification: 8 bits
Jeff Patterson
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