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

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  • Subject: 20010712: 20010712: Work around to the 'not enough colors' problem with ntl/garp running on linux
  • Date: Thu, 12 Jul 2001 22:10:38 -0600
Mike,

I couldn't find 1 control in KDE that would let me scale the colors back.
I used the taskbar option for configuring the server with:
1) change the background to a solid color instead ofgradient
2) Icons, for each of the categories, there are 3 settings for
desktop, active, and unavailable. I set each to gray from its "colored" picture.

The colors for each icon are configured by clicking on "settings" beneath the 
icon.
Thats about 12 total icon settings you have to make.

Steve Chiswell



>From: Mike Leuthold <address@hidden>
>Organization: UCAR/Unidata
>Keywords: 200107122343.f6CNhC106211

>On Thu, 12 Jul 2001, Unidata Support wrote:
>
>> 
>> 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.
>I'm using KDE too.  
>> 
>> With KDE, I set the icons color usage to gray scale from the normal
>> eat-all-my-colors settings. 
>
>Okay, I looked for something to scale back the colors but couldn't find
>it.  That is a non issue now though, with my default xserver running 24
>bit, and my secondary xserver running 8 bits with only ntl/garp running.  
>
>Mike
>
>
>
>--
>Mike Leuthold
>Atmospheric Sciences/Institute of Atmospheric Physics
>University of Arizona
>address@hidden
>520-621-2863
>
>