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From: tomg@hpcvlx.cv.hp.com (Thomas J. Gilg)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apollo
Subject: Re: Motif Problems
Message-ID: <101020025@hpcvlx.cv.hp.com>
Date: 27 Feb 91 18:29:42 GMT
References: <2329@tuvie.UUCP>
Organization: Hewlett-Packard Co., Corvallis, OR, USA
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>           2.   Get X-displays with 256 colors instead of 16.  We noticed
>                that Motif(R) will gobble up 14 colors (it
>                allocates them in shared mode so you will get lucky with
>                some applications, especially if they do not use colors!).

By default, it takes up color cells :-(  You can however force mww/Motif into
a smaller colorset.  Pardon the colors, but here's what I have:

     Mwm*activeBackground:          salmon
     Mwm*activeForeground:          brown
     Mwm*activeBottomShadowColor:   dark slate grey
     Mwm*activeTopShadowColor:      wheat
     
     Mwm*background:          light gray
     Mwm*foreground:          brown
     Mwm*bottomShadowColor:   dark slate grey
     Mwm*topShadowColor:      wheat
     
     Mwm*menu*      see above
     Mwm*icon*      see above
     Mwm*iconImage* see above

I'm down to ~8 colors in my normal windowing setup.

Thomas Gilg
tomg@cv.hp.com