[rescue] Weird Silicon Graphics o2 graphics issues

[Patrick Giagnocavo +1.717.201.3366]

On Thu, Oct 02, 2003 at 09:57:45AM +0200, Jochen Kunz wrote:
> On 2003.10.02 08:48 Meelis Roos wrote:
> 
> > But some programis like Mozilla (and all other 
> > browsers based on the mozilla core), mplayer etc show
> > mangled colormap. There are quite several of them.
> Private color map for each programm? 

The thing is that PseudoColor lets you choose which 256 colors you
want to use.  It is a "read-write" visual, meaning the application can
change the colors.  Thus if there are two programs, when focus changes
between them they re-write the colormap table with no regard to what
the other program is doing.

DirectColor and TrueColor visuals are "read-only" and thus there is
not this problem.  As well, they are usually at least 15bit (32768
colors) depth so things look good enough in any case.

--P