Pmw color scheme and K-desktop environment color scheme....
Rob Hooft
Pmw.setscheme(root,background=bgcolor)
with different (pastel) bgcolors for each invocations. This way, all
dialog and status windows can be easily associated with a project.
Unfortunately, I have noticed, the "color scheme" of the K Desktop
environment (KDE) seems to have priority over my own background color,
even though my application is not a KDE application. What can I do to
force my own background colors under KDE?
Regards,
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Rune Braathen
>My python/Tk project uses the command
>
> Pmw.setscheme(root,background=bgcolor)
>
>with different (pastel) bgcolors for each invocations. This way, all
>dialog and status windows can be easily associated with a project.
>
>Unfortunately, I have noticed, the "color scheme" of the K Desktop
>environment (KDE) seems to have priority over my own background color,
>even though my application is not a KDE application. What can I do to
>force my own background colors under KDE?
Right. I suspect that you have an 8-bit framebuffer with 256 colors only,
which KDE (or Netscape) happily gobbles up, allocating all the colors. So,
when you try to allocate the background color for your widget(s), the X
server will provide the widget with a 'closest match', thereby refusing your
impressionistic Renoir-esque pastel background colors. :)
You can:
a) Live with it
b) Tell KDE to be less trigger-happy when allocating colors
c) Restrict netscape to '-ncols 64' (this makes Chelsea Clinton look better).
d) When intstantiating your toplevel Frame, specify option colormap='new'
This problem is strictly not python-related, but the ever-returning 'color
allocation in X11'-scheme.
(Disclaimer: I am merrily unfamiliar with the KDE window manager, your color
problems _can_ occur because it chooses to behave like no other window
manager, overriding the X11 clients explicit request for a background color,
but I doubt it ...)
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Chris Spiegel
Rob Hooft <R.H...@EuroMail.com> wrote:
>Unfortunately, I have noticed, the "color scheme" of the K Desktop
>environment (KDE) seems to have priority over my own background color,
>even though my application is not a KDE application. What can I do to
>force my own background colors under KDE?
Try KCC -> Desktop -> Styles. Then uncheck "apply kde style to all apps",
or whatever it is... That should do the trick (probably after restarting X).
Chris
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Rob Hooft
CS> On 22 Jan 1999 11:19:34 +0100, Rob Hooft <R.H...@EuroMail.com>
CS> wrote:
>> Unfortunately, I have noticed, the "color scheme" of the K Desktop
>> environment (KDE) seems to have priority over my own background
>> color, even though my application is not a KDE application. What
>> can I do to force my own background colors under KDE?
CS> Try KCC -> Desktop -> Styles. Then uncheck "apply kde style to
CS> all apps", or whatever it is... That should do the trick
CS> (probably after restarting X).
That last sentence in brackets did the trick... I had this option
unchecked, but did not yet login from the beginning. Thanks!