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List:       kde-user
Subject:    Re: Low Colors / Red Hat 7.1 / KDE 2.1
From:       Kyle_S_Hoyt () raytheon ! com
Date:       2001-05-24 14:13:00
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Thanks again for the response,  I haven't had a alot of time to experiment.
Things
I have noticed, HiColor mode uses about 214 colors.  LoColor mode uses
about 144
colors.  With KDE 1 this was about 70 colors.  The app I'm trying to run is
trying to
allocate 141 colors.  If I remove the icons from the task bar and from the
desktop
(although CD and floppy keeps coming back), I can get the colors used down
to
127.  Of course if I click on the K Menu it immediately eats up some more
colors.

So I guessed it still might be using some of the "hicolor" icons.  So I
removed this
directory just to make sure and all icons disappeared.  Why did this
happen?
Shouldn't it be looking in the locolor directory since I'm in locolor mode?
Of course in this mode, only 40 colors were allocated, so my application
was
very happy.

I tried to link hicolor to locolor but then I was back to 127 colors being
used up.
I have disabled the splash screen.  I haven't tried 2 since I'm not really
running
any KDE apps except for the terminal and then I guess the applets on the
task
bar.

I have not tried other window managers yet.

Kyle







"akar 'th 'orrible" <trader2001@bigpond.com.au> on 05/15/2001 06:50:39 PM

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On Wednesday 16 May 2001 04:59, Kyle_S_Hoyt@raytheon.com wrote:
| Thanks for the input but I guess it is not enough.    I modified the
| lowcolor
| pics to just be a blue square and only have entry in its palette but I
| still
| do not have enough.
|
| Is lowcolor for KDE 1 18 colors and for KDE 2 40 colors? If so, then I
| am probably stuck.
|
| Kyle
|
|

Locolour means 256 color mode. AFAIK kde keeps 40 colours so that clicking
on
a window  will not cause everything else to go splotchy when in 8bit color
mode.

There may be a number of possible solutions to this.
1/ Firstly get rid of the splash screen all together, it is not necessary
and
can be disabled in the startkde script.

2/ Check out the --help-all switch on almost all kde apps. You will note
that
there are switches concerning the color maps that will affect most all kde
apps. You may be able to get around your problem by restricting all kde
apps
like kicker etc and kdesktop . Experiment with these kicker etc are started
in your KDE install directory under /share/autostart. You will need to add
the switches in those desktop files for kicker.

3/ Some window managers may give you better control over palette usage, you
can use any window manager in kde you like with varying degrees of
integration. Try icewm,window-manager, and qtwm (from trolltech downloads)

The reason I suggest the last is it is written in qt and may be susceptible
to the qt switches itself as may kwin if you start it yourself rather than
let ksessionmanager start it. Check the startkde script at the end.

Lastly the kstart application also uses those switches but I dont know if
starting an application with kstart will let it inherit those palette
conditions etc
--
Regards,

Andrew
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