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

For those of us with old laptops that do 256 colors max, will Abiword be 
usable, at least, in the mismatched colors of 8-bit Xvesa?  Assuming you 
don't incorporate images, just text, and don't care what color the text 
is.  (Red turned into blue for me in freecell).

On Sat, 9 Oct 2004 3aoo-cvfd AT dea.spamcon.org wrote:

> Dan Schmidt wrote:
> > x8 is an option for 600x800 however when I choose it,
> > it comes up with garbage for about 7 seconds and then
> > boot into a horribly wrong colored icewm.
>
> Xvesa has a problem with x8
>
> > So perhaps abiword does not work in x4?
>
> That's correct.  We have not (yet) found a way to
> get AbiWord to work in x4 (or lower).  It works fine
> at x8 (or higher).
>
> Cheers,
> Steven
>
>
>
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