On Mon, 9 Mar 1998, Mark Fardal wrote:
> could someone tell me how to get a desktop picture working? I have an
> 8-bit .xpm image that I put in $HOME/.fvwm2/background.xpm. But when
> I run the script setup-background, it says
> Couldn't allocate required colors
> and does nothing. If I make the image black-and-white it works fine.
> Is this the stupid X 256-entry colormap limitation rearing its head again?
> (Earth to X: memory is much cheaper these days.) How many colors am
> I allowed to have, and how do I truncate it down to that number if the
> only imaging tool I have is xv?
The 256 colors isn't an X limit, it because of your video card. Run you card
in 16 bit or 24 bit color, or buy a card that can. My 4MB VRAM card was only
$75 several months ago, and I run it at 1200x900 24bit.
If you want to get the # of colors down in your image, try getting netpbm or
the gimp. I don't think you can do it with xv. You could load netscape, then
load xv and have it dither to the common colormap. Then start another xv and
grab the window..
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Received on Mon Mar 09 1998 - 18:46:28 GMT