Technical note:    10302
  Created:           05/11/95 by Trip
  Last modified:     08/04/95 by Brian
  Product:           Netscape Navigator
  Operating system:  Unix (generic)

Sometimes the Netscape Navigator on Unix will display graphics with
somewhat incorrect colors.  This usually occurs because your system is
using a 256-color palette and the graphics you have on your screen
need more than that many different colors among themselves; some Unix
system do not handle this condition very well.

To work around the problem, you can download your graphics and view
them with a graphics application capable of setting up custom
colormaps.  A better, although more expensive, solution would be to
upgrade the hardware of your system to use a 24-bit color display.

If you are seeing unusual inverse colors on your display, then this
could also sometimes be a problem with "endian-ness" (byte order).
When Netscape is running on one computer and sending its display in
"TrueColor mode" to a different computer (by having the DISPLAY
environment variable set to point to a different system), and those
two machines have different endian-ness, then the red and green colors
in Netscape´l;s window will be reversed.  The only workaround is to use
"PseudoColor mode" (8-bit, invoked with the "-visual pseudocolor"
command-line option) or to run the Navigator on a system with the same
byte-order as the machine on which it is being displayed.  One common
case where this problem will be seen is when you´re running the
Navigator on Linux and displaying it on Irix, or vice-versa.