Re: Problem with Wordperfect8 for Linux
On Mon, 17 Jan 2000, russell cook wrote:
> I have wordperfect running ... sort of. The graphics icons are garbled.
> I have XPM4.7 version 3.4k-5. I don not not have XPM4.7-alt dev installed
> because I have a conflict. Can someone tell me wahat packages I must have
> installed on my Potato system for Wordperfect to run properly? If the necessary
> packages are obsolete, can you please tell me where to find them?
>
> Thanks for any help.
>
> Regards,
> Russ
> russcook@flash.net
>
Your color depth is probably set to 24-bit. Wordperfect needs to run only
on 16-bit color depth setups. I just have an alias to run
startx -- -bpp:16 :1, which starts Xwindows in 16 bpp mode.
--
-bob
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