Re: [ROOT] speculation on graphics problems

From: Pascal Mantran (pmantran@clamart.oilfield.slb.com)
Date: Wed Mar 05 2003 - 20:00:08 MET


I don't know about root, but you can instruct Netscape to manage colors
independently of the default color table:

on a 8 bit machine:
netscape -private

on a 24 bit machine:
netscape -visual TrueColor

Use xdpyinfo to find out if your hardware is 24 bit capable:
...
screen #0:
   depths (3):    1, 8, 24

If depth is 1,8 you can only use netscape -private to force netscape
to use a private color table. The drawback is your screen is flashing 
each time
you move in and out of the netscape windows, due to the color table switch.

Pascal.



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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