Gimp Q

[Adam]

I've always ran X in 16bpp and stuff has worked fine for me with matrox
cards using xf86_svga, you might try that? or posting one of the grainy
untouched pics so we know what you mean?

On Sun, 9 Jul 2000, Alan Garrison wrote:

>I've been doing screen captures of particular windows 
>in Xfree from the Tk apps I've been writing for my 
>tutorial (which I'm still working on, whoops! :) and 
>the screencaps are coming out grainy.  I usually run 
>X in 32-bit mode, so I dropped down to 8-bit mode.  They 
>are still grainy without any modification in Gimp (which 
>is what I'm using for the captures).  I can clean them up 
>a little using posterize, but I am wondering is there 
>something I can set to make the captured image as clear 
>as the actual window?  I'm still on XFree 3.3.5/6 (not 
>4.0), and it does it on two of my machines.
>
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