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Re: [S] color conflicts

To: ripley@stats.ox.ac.uk, timh@statsci.com, s-news@wubios.wustl.edu
Subject: Re: [S] color conflicts
From: jones@reed.edu (Albyn Jones)
Date: Wed, 19 Aug 1998 15:21:23 -0700 (PDT)
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Thanks to Tim Hesterberg at statsci and Brian Ripley for a collection
of possible solutions to the color conflict problem.  Experimentation
revealed that Netscape was indeed the culprit.  The various 
solutions included

1)  run netscape with the -install switch

            netscape -install

    this works, but has the side effect of producing wild
    color oscillations as you select/deselect focus on the netscape
    window.

2) Set the X resource (in .Xdefaults)
        Netscape*maxImageColors: 64

this had no affect, I went as low as 8 without success; netscape
seems to be ignoring this setting, though it does read the other
defaults I have set in that file.

3)  run netscape with the -ncols switch (BDR)

        netscape -ncols 128

    worked like a charm.

thanks

albyn
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