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by **Dominic T. Chen** » Fri, 16 Feb 2001 07:45:54

I'm running Redhat 6.2 w/KDE and have an app that needs to be run in
pseudocolor. Can someone tell me how to change my settings to accomodate
this?

thanks
dominic

by **Faux_Pseu** » Sat, 17 Feb 2001 07:34:47

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Quote:
>I'm running Redhat 6.2 w/KDE and have an app that needs to be run in
>pseudocolor. Can someone tell me how to change my settings to accomodate
>this?

>thanks
>dominic

could you be more spacific?

when you say pseudo color what exactly do you mean?
and are you talking console or X
can you give a discription of what you want to have what
ever the app is look like?

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by **Duane Healin** » Sat, 17 Feb 2001 08:01:05

Pseudocolor is an X visual class. Practically this means having to run
8bpp. In your /etc/X11/XF86Config (or wherever Red Hat hides that file)
you'll probably have a line that reads DefaultColorDepth <some number>
change that to DefaultColorDepth 8.

This must be a pretty poorly written program to depend so specifically on
a particlar visual class (and a poor one at that).

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Quote:> I'm running Redhat 6.2 w/KDE and have an app that needs to be run in
> pseudocolor. Can someone tell me how to change my settings to
> accomodate this?

> thanks dominic

by **Hajo** » Sat, 17 Feb 2001 21:52:35

> Pseudocolor is an X visual class. Practically this means having to run
> 8bpp. In your /etc/X11/XF86Config (or wherever Red Hat hides that file)
> you'll probably have a line that reads DefaultColorDepth <some number>
> change that to DefaultColorDepth 8.

Or you could start the X server thus (if not using xdm) to avoid changing your
config:

startx -- -bpp 8

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by **John Mora** » Sun, 18 Feb 2001 01:14:05

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> This must be a pretty poorly written program to depend so specifically on
> a particlar visual class (and a poor one at that).

Pseudocolor has its uses. The color lookup table makes blinking easy.
It might also be useful for false color imaging. Also there were some
cute tricks
one could play with it and keep bandwidth requirements modest.

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> -Duane
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> > I'm running Redhat 6.2 w/KDE and have an app that needs to be run in
> > pseudocolor. Can someone tell me how to change my settings to
> > accomodate this?

> > thanks dominic

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by **Dan Merc** » Sun, 18 Feb 2001 04:02:52

>> Pseudocolor is an X visual class. Practically this means having to run
>> 8bpp. In your /etc/X11/XF86Config (or wherever Red Hat hides that file)
>> you'll probably have a line that reads DefaultColorDepth <some number>
>> change that to DefaultColorDepth 8.

> Or you could start the X server thus (if not using xdm) to avoid changing your
> config:

> startx -- -bpp 8

That won't set the visual class - X needs to be started with the
"-cc 3" option. I just went through this starting Xvnc on a Linux
box. The colors coming back were skewed (some of them pretty hideously).
Starting Xvnc with -cc 3 fixed the problem.

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