Re: [ROOT] speculation on graphics problems

From: Fons Rademakers (Fons.Rademakers@cern.ch)
Date: Wed Mar 05 2003 - 16:15:02 MET


Hi HP,

  Netscape and Mozilla use the same colors so there is no problem
running both at the same time. You could run netscape and mozilla with
the -install option which tells them to use private colormaps.
In ROOT we currently do not support private colormaps.

Cheers, Fons.


On Wed, 2003-03-05 at 15:17, HP Wei wrote:
> Correct me if I am wrong in the following speculation.
> 
> First, some observations:
> I am running things on Sun Ultra workstation with Solaris 8.
> (1) With one Mozilla running,   ok.
> (2) Fire up another Netscape, ok.
> (3) after (1) and (2), plotting in root has problem.
> 
> -----------
> (a) With one Mozilla (or Netscape ) running, ok.
> (b) plotting in root has problem.
> 
> -----------
> (I) No Mozilla or Netscape.
>     Can do some plot in root.
>     
> -----------
> inference:
>   root is competing X resources with Mozilla or Netscape.
>   The fact (2) indicates that netscape 'knows' how to deal
>   with competition peacefully.
>   I speculate that there must be a way for root to do the same.
>   
> -----------------------
> Anyone in roottalk also uses Sun's workstation ?
> Do you have the same problem with ROOT/graphics_interface/X11
> that competes with netscape or mozilla ?
> Can ROOT/Qt/X11 solve the problem ???
> (I am asking this because I prefer not to go through the 
>  process of trying-out the latter possible solution.)
> 
> HP
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