Re: [ROOT] Colors on X-Windows

From: Fons Rademakers (Fons.Rademakers@cern.ch)
Date: Thu Nov 21 2002 - 16:35:25 MET


ROOT does currently not support private colormaps. Netscape does, so
start netscape with the -install option.

Cheers, Fons.


On Thu, 2002-11-21 at 14:15, Florian Schopper wrote:
> Dear Rooters,
> 
> we are using root to display data together with a web-based database.
> Therefor users have to run netscape to use the database which then starts
> an interactive root-session to show the data.
> Everything is fine for 16- or 24-bit displays, but root runs out of colors
> on 8-bit terminals (because Netscape is using most of the colors) and
> therefor can't show menues.
> Is there a way to make root set up a new colormap or anything else?
> 
>   thanks
> 
>             Florian Schopper
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