[Info-vax] Monitor colors go strange

[Tom Adams]

On Sep 24, 1:34 pm, koeh... at eisner.nospam.encompasserve.org (Bob
Koehler) wrote:
> In article <9c24cf43-cfb2-4d42-9b65-142a601a3... at l35g2000vba.googlegroups.com>, tadamsmar <tadams... 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.

We have some in-house custom software that display plots in color.
But I don't think the newly opened decterm was doing anything
different from the others, so I don't know how it could be usings an
additional color.