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Re: Linux Colour Display problems [message #37395]

Mon, 15 December 2003 02:08

Paolo Grigis
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Registered: December 2003

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We had the same problem with 5.5 on linux.
Try using truecolor instead of directcolor
visuals:

device,true_color=24

It solved the problem for us...

Cheers,
Paolo

"Karthikayan B." wrote:
>
> Hello All,
> I am running IDL 5.5 on Debian Linux system (Kernel 2.4.22-1-686)
> and when I have a display window, moving the mouse over the IDL
> display window makes the entire screen change colours.
> These are the first few lines of the programme which call the
> colour table:
>
> device, decomposed = 0, retain = 2
> loadct, 13
> ...
> tvscl,array
>
> IDL> device,get_visual_depth=a
> IDL> print,a
> 24
>
> Thanks,
> KB.

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