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Re: Color Problems in IDL for Linux (Gnome) [message #25930 is a reply to message #25899]

Sun, 29 July 2001 00:24

R.Bauer
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Registered: November 1998

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Sean Davis wrote:
>
> Craig Markwardt wrote:
>
>> Sean Davis <sdavis@nis.lanl.gov> writes:
>> [reformatted for the bleary-eyed]
>>> Well, I know we have all struggled with colors in IDL at one point
>>> or another, but I am currently having a problem which is beyond the
>>> usual frustrations people have with colors in IDL.
>>>
>>> Essentially, when I make a plot, the colors are in black and white
>>> until i click on the upper-bar of the window that i'm interested
>>> in seeing. Then, if there are any colors, the will be shown only as
>>> long as my mouse is over the window of interest!!!
>>>
>>> This seems like a flaw in Gnome, because I can re-login using the
>>> FVWM window manager and everything works fine.
>>
>> The answer may be that (a) you have an 8-bit display; and (b) Gnome
>> uses up all of the colors in your color table, while FVWM does not.
>> If your graphics card is capable, you may be able to investigate
>> moving up to 24-bit, but you will need someone experienced in
>> configuring your X-server. Don't choose 16-bit or you'll be sorry.
>>
>
> Well, I do have 24-bit color so that rules that out. Maybe Gnome uses up all
> of the colors, which still doesn't make
> sense because the colors can be seen by me clicking on the window of
> interest.
>

Dear Sean,

how much colors do you really have by idl.
Please show us !d.n_colors.

If you have only 256 colors then I belive you have some problems
by your idl_startup.

regards
Reimar

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		Re: Color Problems in IDL for Linux (Gnome) By: Sdavis on Wed, 25 July 2001 07:57
		Re: Color Problems in IDL for Linux (Gnome) By: Craig Markwardt on Tue, 24 July 2001 16:55
		Re: Color Problems in IDL for Linux (Gnome) By: Pavel A. Romashkin on Tue, 24 July 2001 15:06
		Re: Color Problems in IDL for Linux (Gnome) By: Sdavis on Tue, 24 July 2001 13:56
		Re: Color Problems in IDL for Linux (Gnome) By: Pavel A. Romashkin on Tue, 24 July 2001 13:47
		Re: Color Problems in IDL for Linux (Gnome) By: R.Bauer on Sun, 29 July 2001 00:24

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