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[sindi keesan <keesan AT sdf.lonestar.org>]

> Dan Schmidt wrote:
> > Abiword does not work for me in the newest baslinux
> > which I downloaded a couple days ago.
>
> What do you mean by "does not work"?
> Are you getting an error message?  A crash?
> Or what?
>
> > I also have installed the icewm.  Does it require
> > more colors?
>
> I think icewm works with just 16 colors.  But more
> is better.

Steven, I recall you saying something about needing to change something in 
the icewm package to get it to work properly with Abiword.  Am I correct 
and if so, have you done this? I have been waiting for the new icewm 
before installing the latest BL3 with Abiword.

> > My Xconfig is set at 600x800.
>
> That is not a valid config.  Do you mean 800x600?
> 800x600x12 is better.  Even 640x480x12 is better
> for AbiWord.

I tested out Xvesa at various color depths and if you set it to color 
depth 12 it uses the exact same amount of RAM (and looks the same) as 
depth 15 (on cards which support that) or 16 (on cards which don't do 15). 
Xvesa chooses some color depth close to what it does support if you ask it 
for something it does not support - it may round up or down.  8-bit does 
not work properly and I think it rounded 9 and 10  and 11 to 8-bit, but 
12, 13 and 14 to 15-bit (32K colors).

So I think 800x600x12 is really 800x600x15.

It sounds like Abiword requires at least 15-bit color (or 8-bit but Xvesa 
won't do that properly - the colors come out very strange).  Opera 7 won't 
work with 4-bit color (16 colors) (Opera 6 accepted mono), nor will 
flwriter.

> Cheers,
> Steven
>
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