[Info-vax] Monitor colors go strange

Tom Adams tadamsmar at yahoo.com
Mon Sep 28 14:31:05 EDT 2009


On Sep 24, 10:02 pm, "John E. Malmberg" <wb8... at qsl.network> wrote:
> Tom Adams wrote:
> > On Sep 24, 11:21 am, tadamsmar <tadams... at yahoo.com> wrote:
> >> 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?
>
> > The colors also switch from orange/black to normal if you just change
> > the focus to a different window and back.
>
> Set the Decterms to use a shared color map.
>
> Your graphics adapter has a limited number of color palettes , and one
> of your applications is using at least one color that is not on the
> default color palette, so it is swapping them.  If you set the DECterms
> to use a shared map, then it should minimized the problem.
>
> -John
> wb8... at qsl.network
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I can set shared map under  Options > Graphics.

But when I save the Decterm options, it does not save te shared map
option, so you have to do it every time you open a decterm

Do you know any way around that?

Also, I don't think we were doing anything to use a color that was not
already being displayed on the other decterms.



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