Re: X Windows has strange color scheme
On Thu, Feb 20, 2003 at 04:17:22AM -0800, Phil Newcombe wrote:
> Hi all - I'm kind of new to this list but I've been using Debian since
> 2.0 and now I've got a problem I can't figure out. I was running
> unstable up until last month with no noticeable problems but I decided,
> because I didn't want to get any problems, to down-grade to testing and
> update my installation at roughly the same time.
>
> Well everything works - I've got the 2.4.20 kernel and it runs and X
> runs - but, it has this really weird 'rainbow' like color scheme running
> through everything. The root window comes up lime-green with the window
> borders a lovely shade of pink! The icons in Moz, which used to work
> fine, are so 'scrambled' I couldn't tell what they were if I didn't have
> them memorized - but they work right when I click on them.
>
> I can't seem to change color depths either. No matter what I do - use
> -bpp <n> on the command line or change the color depth line in
> XF86Config-4 manually - nothing changes. And when I click on xsetroot
> in the window menu it changes to a kind of coarse gray (from the
> lime-green) and then won't do anything else.
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It sounds like you're stuck in some very low color depth ... perhaps
you could tell us what kind of hardware you have and post your
XF86Config-4 ?
Personally I never had any luck with GUI config of X; I use vi.
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