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Re: Color Problems in IDL for Linux (Gnome) [message #26054 is a reply to message #25908]

Tue, 31 July 2001 09:11

cjc5
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On Tue, 31 Jul 2001 14:52:07 -0000, Steve Smith<steven_smith> <nobody@nowhere.com> wrote:
>
> You can pre-set the colors idl uses in .Xdefaults, I believe. Also, Gnome
> is a desktop environment, not a window manager, last time I installed it.
> You must be using Enlightenment or BlackBox maybe? I use Gnome / Enlightement
> currently (with IDL), I used to have to put a few lines like:
>
> #idl.colors: 16777216 <------ note this is commented out!
> idl.gr_depth: 24
> idl.retain: 2
> idl.gr_visual: TrueColor
>
> in .Xdefaults to get color working in X w/idl (that was using AfterStep wm).
> Most important is idl.retain, which tells IDL to handle the window's backing
> -store, instead of the window manager. You may want to try that.

Thanks. I was having a similar problem and this solved it. This is
on a RH7.1 system with gnome-1.4 and sawfish-0.38. The 3 settings
listed above seem to do the trick.

Craig

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		Color Problems in IDL for Linux (Gnome) By: Sdavis on Tue, 24 July 2001 13:33
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		Re: Color Problems in IDL for Linux (Gnome) By: cjc5 on Tue, 31 July 2001 09:11
		Re: Color Problems in IDL for Linux (Gnome) By: nobody@nowhere.com (S on Tue, 31 July 2001 07:52

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