[Xastir] Problem with gif & xpm maps

[Curt, WE7U]

On Sun, 23 Jan 2005, Ian A Bultitude wrote:

> Well I do not know what 'Cygwin' is.

It's the package that adds some Unix functionality to Windows.  I
thought that might be what you were running Xastir on.  Evidently
not.


> On my windows machines I am using Humming Bird Exceed for the
> Xwindows and Putty for the SSH.
> On the Sun system I am using the in built SSH and the CDE desktop.
> I get the same problem on all platforms. This evening I have been
> playing with a Win98 set-up of the windows config but can not
> improve on what I have.
> I have enabled the European maps which are all *.map files and
> they work just fine so the problem is only with the *.gif or *.xpm
> (the xpm files were derived from the *.gif using Gimp).

It certainly sounds like colormap issues on the X11 server where
you're doing your display.  Are you by any chance running a web
browser that likes to steal all your colors?  Perhaps something like
Gimp or XV that might do the same?  I used to have that sort of
problem on an 8-bit display when I started Netscape up first.  If I
limited Netscape to a smaller number of colors I was fine.


> Do you have MSN or ICQ for a live chat session?

I have the capability, but it's not something that I want to do
Xastir support with typically.  Sorry.

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