Hello again,
It is about fvwm again. When I open some applications (particularly Mozilla, Netscape, GThumb) my wallpaper and the application do change into some psychdelic backgrounds. Each time the mouse focus moves from the application to the desktop or vice versa, the colors get swapped. I do not have any problems apps such as Acrobat or OpenOffice etc. They are working fine.
Has anyone seen this behaviour before? How do I fix these color changes in display?
Thank you in advance.
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On Tue, 17 Jun 2003, Subba Rao wrote:
It is about fvwm again. When I open some applications (particularly Mozilla, Netscape, GThumb) my wallpaper and the application do change into some psychdelic backgrounds. Each time the mouse focus moves from the application to the desktop or vice versa, the colors get swapped. I do not have any problems apps such as Acrobat or OpenOffice etc. They are working fine.
Has anyone seen this behaviour before? How do I fix these color changes in display?
This is called color tripping. Your X server doesn't have the required color space to support all visible applications as well as desktop all at once. So when you switch focus, the colormap gets installed to that particular application, leaving rest of the display in kind of psychdelic looking colors. There is nothing wrong with this behaviour. If your video hardware supports more colors (16bit/24bit/32bit displays) then try that to avoid this.
-Rajesh
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