Mac on Linux is golden brown

[Andrew]

On Mon, 2004-12-06 at 14:17, Kevin Harris wrote:
> I was following some of the threads going on in the digest about mol and 
> decided to give it a shot on my 12" Powerbook running YDL 4.0.  Well, I 
> ran the configure tool for the video stuff and afterward issued the 
> startmol -X command as root.  The result was Mac OS X booting with a 
> brownish color on the screen and everything looking quite hideous.  I 
> checked my video depth in YDL and I am at 1024x768 at Millions of Colors. 
> 
> Any ideas why mol is looking so hideous?  Thanks.
>  

I guess you'll have to use a lower color depth for the OSX side. 
check /etc/mol.molrc.video
there is a line for depth. The default is 32.
X11 and OSX are not be using the same colormap?

Another possibility would be to setup mol to use a tty (VT) instead of
within a X11 window.