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Re: CVS emacs uses all the color cells
From: |
Miles Bader |
Subject: |
Re: CVS emacs uses all the color cells |
Date: |
Fri, 04 Jun 2004 10:25:08 +0900 |
Klaus Zeitler <address@hidden> writes:
> Has anybody observed a similar behavior? And what's the recommended way
> of using emacs when one has only 256 colors.
FWIW, I use Emacs (compiled with the GTK toolkit) together with Gnome
apps and Mozilla on a system with 256-color display, and everything
generally works wonderfully -- even my fancy background image etc are
displayed properly with a slight bit of dithering. My impression is
that the main "color grabber" is actually GTK, especially when you're
using anti-aliased fonts and a fancy theme. I have the
menubar/toolbar/scrollbars in Emacs turned off, but I don't think that
should make much difference, as other Gnome/GTK apps use the same
widgets.
Both Emacs and GTK seem to deal quite well with color shortages by
dithering or choosing close colors (the main exception is
gnome-terminal, which _cannot_ deal with a failed color allocation for
the terminal display -- it just uses black or something instead; I've
carefully chosen cutom terminal colors that I know will be allocated
succesfully :-).
The only problems I have are with some other apps that want lots of
color, typically to do their own anti-aliasing -- e.g., xpdf -- but they
seem to be a problem even when Emacs isn't running. My solution so far
has simply been to run xpdf with it's own colormap.
-Miles
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