[Info-vax] Monitor colors go strange

[Bob Koehler]

In article <9c24cf43-cfb2-4d42-9b65-142a601a3c47 at l35g2000vba.googlegroups.com>, tadamsmar <tadamsmar at yahoo.com> writes:
> Sometimes, when you open an new decterm on the console, the colors on
> all windows change.  We have one now where the colors turn orange and
> black.
> 
> Here's the senario:
> 
> We have 3 decterms up and everything is normal.
> 
> Open another decterm and colors go orange/black.
> 
> Minimize that decterm and colors go back to normal.
> 
> Restore that decterm and colors to orange/black.
> 
> Does anyone have any ideas about what is going on?

   I see this sometimes when I have lots of windows open, especially if
   one is mozilla.  I'm under the impression that the total number of
   color mappings is exceeding the number that the graphics card can
   simultaneously maintain.  Usually just move focus to one of the
   other windows causes the other windows' mapping to become active.

   But I have not ever seen this with just three DECterms.  I generally
   don't do anything in DECterms that alter the color mapping, but it is
   certainly possible to do so.