Re: Turn Off Netscape!!!

[Sven Thommesen]

Manor Askenazi wrote:
> 
> > So it's either run in 16bpp mode, or wait for Manor ....   :-)
> 
> I'm really confused about all this traffic concerning colors!
> 
> We _could_ add code such that Swarm would run in its own private
> colormap but it is so much easier to simply exit all the typical
> color-hog applications such as Netscape, Mosaic etc. before running
> Swarm.
>

Manor, I agree! 

Doing so does reduce the problem. Besides, running with 16bpp does in 
fact solve the problem for those who can do so. 

HOWEVER, I just verified that after editing my .Xclients to NOT load 
Arena, which is default on RedHat linux, I STILL have color resource 
allocation problems running heatBugs. That's in 8bpp; I can't run 16bpp 
(yet). Perhaps it's the Control Panel using up colors; I don't know. But 
"Just Say No to Netscape" isn't a total cure ...

Sven

> Besides the default behaviour for most applications is to attempt
> co-existence on the same colormap (which is what we do). This is
> just a fact of life that there is a limited number of concurrently
> displayable colors on most workstations.
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Manor.
> 
> PS> I mean, to actually change the code in heatbugs just in order to
>     avoid requiring 64 shades of red when all you need to do is kill
>     your Mosaic session seems to me a bit extreme...
> 
>     Patrick (@ida.org), could you confirm that if you turn off all other
>     applications then the following code is unnecessary?
> 
>   // ****  Modified to show at least a few colors ****
>     for (i=0;i<16;i++)
>       [colormap setColor: i ToName: "black"];
>     for (i=16;i<32;i++)
>       [colormap setColor: i ToName: "blue"];
>     for (i=32;i<48;i++)
>       [colormap setColor: i ToName: "orange"];
>     for (i=48;i<64;i++)
>       [colormap setColor: i ToName: "red"];