On Thu, Apr 20, 2000 at 01:44:47PM -0500, Frederick Bruckman wrote:
> On Thu, 20 Apr 2000, Simon Raahauge DeSantis wrote:
> 
> > I installed the GAIM package the otherday. (GTK Aol Instant Messanger
> > client) Does anyone have any tips for how to get this to cooperate better
> > with 256 color displays? It changes the colors of everything else on the
> > screen and uses these d0rky penguin icons for the buttons. The file list
> > (pkg_info -L) doesn't show any xpms so are the icons and so on kept within
> > the program itself?
> 
> Probably. Xpm's are simply array's of strings -- the format is
> self-evident if you look at one. You could run "strings" over the
> binary to see what shakes out.
> 
Yeah, I've found the xpms so I'll change them and rebuild.

> As for all the colors changing, that's pretty much unavoidable with
> 256 color displays. The best you can do, usually, is to reduce the
> colors used by other applications, or unmap them. Some window managers
> eat up a lot of colors themselves. It may help to turn off icons, or
> try a different window manager. Something like "wmx" would be much
> kinder here than "kde" or "windowmaker".

I'm a big wm2 fan myself, but all my NetBSD boxen are headless so I'm doing
all this in MacX which does not cooperate well with otherthings in terms of
colors. MacOS suddenly turns all grey and yellow which is a bit ugly. Maybe
I can just reduce the colors in the xpms. I don't do any graphics in X
really so 256 isn't that big a deal (I could get the monitor to do 16bit
color, but I'd have to reduce resolution to 832x624 (Right now I have it at
1152x870)).
> 

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-Simon Raahauge DeSantis