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20010712: Work around to the 'not enough colors' problem with ntl/garp running on linux

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  • Subject: 20010712: Work around to the 'not enough colors' problem with ntl/garp running on linux
  • Date: Thu, 12 Jul 2001 17:39:16 -0600
Mike,

We run under RH 7.1 here with no trouble. I have better luck with KDE,
The Gnome manager seems to allocate all 256 colors as shared/read-only.

With KDE, I set the icons color usage to gray scale from the normal
eat-all-my-colors settings. 

Thanks for the note. We'll be using the UCAR training center's Linux
boxes for the GEMPAK workshop at the end of the month. 

Chiz


>From: Mike Leuthold <address@hidden>
>Organization: UCAR/Unidata
>Keywords: 200107122252.f6CMqf104788

>Chiz,
>       I don't know if anyone has come up with this yet, but I've come up
>with a work around for the 'not enough colors' problem and am able to have
>a 24 bit display and a 8 bit display.  Redhat Linux supports 2 separate X
>server processes.  I've set my default (:0) server to 24 bit and set the
>secondary to 8 bit (:1).  What I did, was run X :1 -depth 8, fire up a
>xterminal on that screen, and a window manager (twm).  Linux supports
>toggling between them via the ctrl-alt-F7 and F8 keys.  I run ntl -s 140
>on the :1 screen and just toggle back and forth.  It works well. You need
>quite a bit of memory though (I'm running 512MB) but that is no big deal
>on a PC.  The hardware is a 1.33GHz Athlon and a Geforce2 video card.  
>This Athlon is incredibly fast running garp, by the way.  Steve Mullen and
>I plan on getting all Linux machines to replace our xterminals in the near
>future.
>
>Mike
>
>
>
>--
>Mike Leuthold
>Atmospheric Sciences/Institute of Atmospheric Physics
>University of Arizona
>address@hidden
>520-621-2863
>
>
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