Re: CVS emacs uses all the color cells

[Klaus Zeitler]

>>>>> "Jan" == Jan D <address@hidden> writes:
    Jan> 
    Jan> Does both 21.3 and CVS use the same toolkit?

I think so, I use "--with-x-toolkit=motif" to produce emacs CVS and 21.3.

Configure says:


Configured for `sparc-sun-solaris2.8'.

  Where should the build process find the source code?    
/vol/freeware/cvs/emacs/head/emacs
  What operating system and machine description files should Emacs use?
        `s/sol2-6.h' and `m/sparc.h'
  What compiler should emacs be built with?               gcc -g -O2
  Should Emacs use the GNU version of malloc?             yes
  Should Emacs use a relocating allocator for buffers?    yes
  Should Emacs use mmap(2) for buffer allocation?         no
  What window system should Emacs use?                    x11
  What toolkit should Emacs use?                          MOTIF
  Where do we find X Windows header files?                
/usr/openwin/include:/usr/local/gnu/include
  Where do we find X Windows libraries?                   
/usr/openwin/lib:/usr/local/gnu/lib
  Does Emacs use -lXaw3d?                                 no
  Does Emacs use -lXpm?                                   yes
  Does Emacs use -ljpeg?                                  yes
  Does Emacs use -ltiff?                                  no
  Does Emacs use -lungif?                                 no
  Does Emacs use -lpng?                                   yes
  Does Emacs use X toolkit scroll bars?                   yes


    Jan> Could be the new tool bar icons, see if this makes any difference:
    Jan> % emacs --xrm '*toolBar: 0'

big difference, that's obviously the culprit. Without the tool bar CVS
uses only 2 more cells than emacs 21.3:

xcoloruse: 256 total colors; 46 used 210 available.
               0 of the used are writeable; 46 are read-only.

emacs --xrm '*toolBar: 0' &
xcoloruse: 256 total colors; 64 used 192 available.
               0 of the used are writeable; 64 are read-only.

/usr/local/gnu/cvs/head/bin/emacs --xrm '*toolBar: 0' &
xcoloruse: 256 total colors; 66 used 190 available.
               0 of the used are writeable; 66 are read-only.

    >> Has anybody observed a similar behavior? And what's the recommended way
    >> of using emacs when one has only 256 colors.
    Jan> 
    Jan> Turn off things that uses colours, menu bars, tool bars, scroll bars
    Jan> and so on.

I don't think that is what our users want. Turning off the colors in the tool
bar (or drastically reduce them) would be acceptable I think (if this is
possible).

Klaus

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