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Re: Colour tables in linux (and default setting of retain) [message #40909]

Thu, 09 September 2004 02:30

wmconnolley
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Paolo Grigis <pgrigis@astro.phys.ethz.ch> wrote:
> wmc@bas.ac.uk wrote:
>> { x86 linux unix linux 6.0.3 Feb 26 2004 32 64}
>>
>> I have a problem with colour tables... I've set my server to 8 bit. If I
>> use a "windowmaker" session, all is as it should be (I get a private
>> colour map and when I select the plot window I see the real colours).
>> However, if I have a gnome session then this doesn't work: I only get
>> to see the colours if I also open a widget draw window (eg xloadct) and
>> select the graphics area on that. This seems pretty weird to me: is there
>> a known answer?

> The same problem showed up in a linux machine with 24-bit X-server
> with "writable" colormaps (that is, directcolor) and was solved by
> using a "static" colormap instead (that is, truecolor).

> Now, this is just a guess, but in 8-bit, you could try to use
> staticcolor instead of the "writable" pseudocolor:

> device,static_color=8
> help,/device

It works! Thanks. Has to be done before the first window is drawn though.

-W.

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