>My best guess would be that X is running in 256 color mode and therefor using >color maps. Try running the X server in 16bit mode or higher. > >Something like > >startx -- -bpp 16 > >might do the trick. FWIW, I've run into problems with xmms and some of it's plugins in 16-bit color. I use 24-bit color to be on the safe side. PaulM