Subject: Re: Linux 32bpp (non-member submission)
From: Robert Sievers (bob@abisource.com)
Date: Mon Feb 14 2000 - 17:07:48 CST
From: Brian Sammon <bsammon@yifan.net>
To: abiword-user@abisource.com
> The Abi window is jumping to 32bpp and is then fine... it just makes all
> other windows look funnny :) GIMP does the same... I've fixed my
> problem now by buying Metro-X but for anyone else it might be
> interesting to know why it does this?
Actually, what is happening is that it is switching the X-server to a
"private
colormap". It is still 256 colors, just a _different_ 256 colors.
I think what is happening is that AbiWord is telling the X-server to use a
pallette of colors that is ideally suited to the AbiWord display. Meanwhile,
all of the other programs which were working with the old pallette look wierd
in the new pallette.
I think there is (or should be) a command-line option to AbiWord which forces
it to use the "system colormap"
Seeing as you have a pretty decent video-card, I can't imagine why you'd want
to run at 8bpp. I think with XFree 3.3.6, you should have no problem running
X on this card at 32 or 16 bpp.
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