this problem is hardly fixable. Just as Netscape does not work if you first
would start ROOT. We could implement something like -install for ROOT but then
the screen colors would be just as bad. Best thing is to get a modern Linux PC
or "thin client" with >32K colors. Never a color problem anymore.
Cheers, Fons.
Marcelo G. Munhoz wrote:
>
> 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.
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