Re: Problem with 16 bit colours?

[Paul Barnfather <plb clanger9 demon co uk>]

Miroslav Silovic wrote:
> 
> Paul Barnfather <plb@clanger9.demon.co.uk> writes:
> 
> > Interestingly, I tried a 24 bit display, and it's fine! There are
> > rumours of 16-bit colour issues with VNC (basically XFee86) on Solaris.
> > Anyone know more?
> 
> Imlib uses fixed palette for dithering (~/.imlib_palette.pal or
> something like that, you can change that using imlib_config). That
> palette must be suitable for your system, and imlib must get enough
> colors to instantiate that palette. So my guess would be that you're
> using too big a palette and so imlib only get some colors
> (insufficient to dither correctly). I suggest you use xcmap (to
> display palette) and imagemagic to grab xcmap window from the display
> to extract the palette from it.
> 

SOLVED!

I checked "Force Palette" in the Imlib configuration dialog, it's
all looking fine now.

Thanks for pointing me in the right direction.

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