Re: color on NCD terminal.

Marcelo G. Munhoz (munhoz@physics.wayne.edu)
Tue, 01 Jun 1999 10:58:50 -0400


O'NEEL Bruce wrote:

> Hi,
> If netscape is the problem try starting it with:
>
> netscape -install
>
> this forces netscape to install it's own colormap. Once you do this
> root seems to work fine, and, isn't slow plotting. Of course, the
> screen swaps all your colors around when you give netscape focus so
> it's very ugly, but...
>
> cheers
>
> bruce
>
> Pasha Murat writes:
> > One of the possibilities is that you're always running Netscape
> > which redefines color palette. In 8-bit color mode (which most probably is the
> > one you're using) ROOT and Netscape interfere with each other. We also observe
> > that in this (8-bit = 256-color) mode ROOT-based graphics applications
> > (in our case - CDF ROOT-based event display) run much slower in the presence
> > of Netscape although we didn't spend much time to understand the mechanism of
> > this slowdown.
> > -Pasha

Hello Bruce and Pasha,

Thanks a lot for the answers. You got right on the mark! If I don't run Netscape
or if I run it with the -install option, I don't have any color problem in ROOT.
But, since I need Netscape running and, as Bruce point out, the colors of the screen
get really ugly with the -install option, does the ROOT team intend to fix this
problem on next releases (if this is at all "fixable")?

Thanks again,

Marcelo.