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Iv'e got this really annoying problems with my Gnome box, when I start a browser like Firefox, all the hyperlinks are in ugly bright green, and I need to mouse-over ...
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  1. 03-30-2005 #1
    Morgoth
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    Colours gone mush

    Iv'e got this really annoying problems with my Gnome box, when I start a browser like Firefox, all the hyperlinks are in ugly bright green, and I need to mouse-over to show their standard colours.
    As soon as the page reloads, *poof* all the links are bright green again, Ctrl-A does the same thing.

    The colours in other gnome apps are mush as well, the Gnome-Help browser has the same problem, the Gnome-terminal has the extra-mush version: all the colours are bright red/pink/yellow/whatever (it's killing my eyes), editing the terminal colour palette doesn't help.

    Even IceWM has the problem, I have not checked KDE for the problem, since I don't feel like wasting an entire gigabyte to bloatware.

    It could be that it's because this box is on vmware, but I installed the vmware-tools and the problem still remains.
    Can this be a driver problem? A problem with the X11-server?
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  2. 03-31-2005 #2
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    Re: Colours gone mush

    Quote Originally Posted by Morgoth
    Iv'e got this really annoying problems with my Gnome box, when I start a browser like Firefox, all the hyperlinks are in ugly bright green, and I need to mouse-over to show their standard colours.
    As soon as the page reloads, *poof* all the links are bright green again, Ctrl-A does the same thing.

    The colours in other gnome apps are mush as well, the Gnome-Help browser has the same problem, the Gnome-terminal has the extra-mush version: all the colours are bright red/pink/yellow/whatever (it's killing my eyes), editing the terminal colour palette doesn't help.

    Even IceWM has the problem, I have not checked KDE for the problem, since I don't feel like wasting an entire gigabyte to bloatware.

    It could be that it's because this box is on vmware, but I installed the vmware-tools and the problem still remains.
    Can this be a driver problem? A problem with the X11-server?
    Sounds like you're running the X server in 8-bit (256-colors) depth.
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  3. 03-31-2005 #3
    Morgoth
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    I don think that was it, since when I desperately tried to set some colours in the gnome-terminal pallete I could chose from a few million.

    But I found the skanky bug, it was the smoothing -> grayscale option in the gnome fonts preferences, which the virtual videocard apparently couldn't handle.
    Everything looks bee-uu-tifull now and I can code merrily with my vim.
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