colors go very funny

[Dylan]

When I run gimp and xmms, the colors off all my others apps go verryy kooky :-) and only gimp/xmms has the correct colors. But if I click another app, all the apps but gimp or xmms have correct colors.

help....

[Linuxcool]

It could that you don't have enough colors to go around. If you have only 256 (8 bit) colors to go around, that might not be enough. You'll need to set your color depth to a higher number (16, 24, or 32 bits). That is if your video card can supply the higher number of colors at the screen resolution you're working at. You'll have to use an X configuration type program to change it.

[ 08 April 2001: Message edited by: Linuxcool ]

[quandary]

I think you can also specify different color depths when giving the startx command, e.g. by typing startx -bpp 24 or startx -bpp 32.