> I started an 8-bit X server on a Matrox G100, hogged all the
> colors possible with Netscape, xearth, xv, and AbiWord
> still looked great. I got the exact same funky technicolor
> on the Laptop, though... the client area of AbiWord looked
> good but the window manager decorations, the root window,
> and other applications got flipped.
Sounds like the X server you're using doesn't like shared colour maps...
What happenned to the good ol' days, when people used only want to run
1 program at a time? ;-)
-- -- Michael Samuel <michael@surfnetcity.com.au>