On Feb 27, 4:34pm, Frank Stefani wrote:
> Subject: Re: color pallete
> To subscribers of the xforms list from Frank Stefani
<EAD-Frank.Stefani@t-online.de> :
>
> John Prinos wrote:
> > Is there some way in which I can keep my application from 'switching
colors'
> > each time the mouse passes over it?
>
> I had the same problem with Linux and Gimp. It disappeared when
> I used an Xserver with more than 8 bits color depth. The accelerated
> Xservers (S3, W32, ...) don't support it. Use the standard SVGA
> server (XF86_SVGA) and start it with
>
> startx -- -bpp 16
>
> (8, 16, 24, 32 are possible). Maybe, you will have to run
> "xf86config" again. And take care that some modes and screens
> are generated for at least 16 bpp.
>
> Hope this helps,
> Frank.
>
> BTW: I heard that the next release of X (XFree86) will support
> more color depths and an accelarator is built in! Should be out
> soon...
> --
>-- End of excerpt from Frank Stefani
The answer to this is in A.2 of Appendix A. just set the visual designation to
FL_DefaultVisual using fl_set_defaults and the FL_IOPT structure.
J0hn
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