i figured it out. finally... changed the color bit rate. to the highest - 32 bits, commenting out the rest in the conf file... --- "Joshua L. McDowell" <joshuamcdo439122@cs.com> wrote: > Are you trying to X as Root? If so try as a regular > user, I know it's > not supposed to work that way. Yet if I X as root > then I get a very > strange colorless effect. Although mine is so bad > that I can't see > anything. > > Joshua > http://geocities.com/joshmia2001/ > > Douga Shmiffizeck wrote: > > >hi all, > >i just installed X for 6th time on a freeBSD 4.6. > did > >different installs - from the ports nad from > sources i > >got from x.org and other mirrors. i haven't used X > >before but i've been using the command line for > years > >now. i poked around and online but so far no big > help. > >the issues are: > >1. no matter what environment i pick - gnome or > >sawfish - there isn't any colors. i reedited the > >server conf file gazillian times - same result - no > >colors which is the reason netscape doesn't show > any > >images i guess... > >2. what is most annoying is that every time i open > a > >menu on the window menager and sellect something > the > >menu stays open - doesn't close up. and if i move a > >window i get this onion skin effect all over the > >screen. > >3. i also suspect that if i select genome-session > in > >my .xinitrc file i get gnome and sawfish and who > knows > >what else runnung. > >i don't really have a lot of time to sit for the > next > >week and go through all the files and figure out > stuff > >myself. > >i was hoping to get some information how to solve > the > >above issues here... onece and for all... > > > >thanks. > > > >__________________________________________________ > >Do you Yahoo!? > >Yahoo! Mail Plus - Powerful. Affordable. Sign up > now. > >http://mailplus.yahoo.com > >_______________________________________________ > > > >Newbie@XFree86.Org > >*** To unsubscribe , or change message options, > see: > >http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/newbie > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Newbie@XFree86.Org > *** To unsubscribe , or change message options, see: > http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/newbie __________________________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail Plus - Powerful. Affordable. Sign up now. http://mailplus.yahoo.com _______________________________________________ Newbie@XFree86.Org *** To unsubscribe , or change message options, see: http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/newbie
