Hello,
thanks for response !
Mann Zoltan Adam wrote:
>
>
> I had the same problem with my computer at work. I think the problem is
> that your system supports only a limited number of colors (e.g. 256) and
> there is a collision between the applications using the colors. So LyX
> starts with a warning like "Failed to share colormaps", or something like
> that, and after that if you focus on the LyX window, the other
> applications lose their original colors and vice versa.
Sounds quite possible, very similar to my situation, except regarding to
"warning" (which is due to the fact that I created an Lyx icon on the
Desktop
)......
>
>
> Actually, Netscape seems to need quite a lot of colors because on my
> system the situation was worse if Netscape was also running. Also, at
> startup of LyX, not only LyX consumes colors but also its splash screen,
> so the situation may depend on whether your mouse pointer is on the splash
> screen or not.
>
> Cheers
> Zoltan
Sounds like you had to master the same problems. Did you find a
workaround !?
cheers
thomas
