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Hi!
I am currently rebuilding a large software project
into RedHat Linux (v7) from Solaris. I am having trouble with the colormap
and how many colors Gnome uses in it. My system has to run in 8-bit color
mode due to some legacy support requirements. Our Sun system only uses
about 40 colors of the 256, leaving the rest for applications to use.
Gnome seems to use all of them but one or two. KDE seems to leave about
100 or so, but we prefer to run the software in Gnome. I tried configuring
the color palette with the imlib configuration utility, but these settings don't
seem to effect the icons in the menus and on the Panel. Restricting
imlib-config to 2 colors (black and white) still only leaves about 8 colors free
in the colormap.
So, I have 2 questions. First, is there a
utility in Linux to view the current contents of the colormap (like xcolor in
Unix)? I have been running xcolor on my unix box, displaying the window on
the linux computer as a temporary workaround. gcolorsel seems to only
display the contents of rgb.txt and not the current state of the
colormap.
The second question is how can I limit how many
colors are used by Gnome when it loads to solve this colormap "hogging"
problem? Even if the desktop and icons used only 16 colors and left the
rest for our software that would be perfect.
Any suggestions are appreciated.
Thanks, Mark
Mark Cuss
Junior Real Time Systems Analyst CDL Systems Ltd 3553 - 31 Street NW Calgary, Alberta (403) 289-1733 ext 26 mcuss cdlsystems com |