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how to revert to 8-bit color? [message #8353]

Mon, 03 March 1997 00:00

Mark Fardal
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Registered: October 1995

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Hi,

I tried using IDL on the spiffy new Sun Ultra-1 here. All is fine,
except IDL insists on using 24-bit color for the plotting window,
and since I depend on a particular color table this is quite annoying.
I stuck
idl.gr_visual: PseudoColor
in my .Xdefaults, and also issued the command
device,pseudo_color = 8
before creating a window. Neverthelsess, help,/device shows
Display Depth, Size: 24 bits, (1280,1024)
Visual Class: DirectColor (5)
Bits Per RGB: 8
Physical Color Map Entries (Used / Total): 256 / 256
Colormap: Private, 16777216 colors. Translation table: Bypassed
plus other stuff. And yes, 8-bit color is supported on this display
according to xdpyinfo.

What am I doing wrong?

Thanks,
Mark Fardal
University of Colorado

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