| Re: Color Problems in IDL for Linux (Gnome) [message #26058 is a reply to message #25908] |
Tue, 31 July 2001 07:52  |
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On Sun, 29 Jul 2001 09:24:45 +0200, Reimar Bauer <r.bauer@fz-juelich.de> wrote:
> Sean Davis wrote:
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>> Craig Markwardt wrote:
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>>> 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.
>>
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> 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
>
>
> --
> Reimar Bauer
>
> Institut fuer Stratosphaerische Chemie (ICG-1)
> Forschungszentrum Juelich
> email: R.Bauer@fz-juelich.de
> http://www.fz-juelich.de/icg/icg1/
> ============================================================ ======
> a IDL library at ForschungsZentrum Juelich
> http://www.fz-juelich.de/icg/icg1/idl_icglib/idl_lib_intro.h tml
>
> http://www.fz-juelich.de/zb/text/publikation/juel3786.html
> ============================================================ ======
>
> read something about linux / windows
> http://www.suse.de/de/news/hotnews/MS.html
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.
--
Steve S.
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