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- Subject: Re: executor messes up fvwm!
- Cc: executor@ardi.com
- Newsgroups: comp.emulators.mac.executor
- In-reply-to: <lvk9z1e7rn.fsf@zifi.genetics.utah.edu>
- To: zinc@zifi.genetics.utah.edu (BOFH)
- Date: Sun, 28 Apr 96 12:25 MDT
- From: mat@ardi.com (Mat Hostetter)
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- >>>>> "BOFH" == BOFH <zinc@zifi.genetics.utah.edu> writes:
-
- >> From: holmes@gorilla.nbn.com (Tim Holmes) Newsgroups:
- >> comp.emulators.mac.executor Date: Fri, 19 Apr 1996 19:41:31 GMT
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- >> Has anybody else noticed this? When I open E/L while using
- >> fvwm, any subsequently opened windows are monochrome or strange
- >> colors. Even xlock screen saver becomes monchrome. Any
- >> windows open before E/L are OK.
-
- BOFH> i have been using executor with FVWM for a long time now and
- BOFH> have never seen this problem. what depth are you running X
- BOFH> in? i use 16 bpp with an STB trio 64 card (2 MB).
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- I think the problem is that Executor ties up his colormap, so
- subsequently run programs can't get the colors they desire. Since you
- are running in 16bpp mode, you have no colormap and everything works.
-
- "-privatecmap" is one workaround for his problem, although not a
- perfect one.
-
- -Mat
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