On Mon, Nov 27, 2000 at 10:49:03AM -0800, Hyper Faze wrote:
> What would be another way of starting up fvwm2?
>
> I'm on an ultra 1 solaris 8 box running fvwm-2.2.4
>
> The way I'm currently doing it is I'm loging in using
> the command line login. Then I execute
> /usr/openwin/xinit which then launches a terminal
> window in which I type /home/frosbyte/usr/bin/fvwm2 &
> and it brings up fvwm2 fine.
Try the following .xinitrc file:
<<Eoxinitrc
#!/bin/sh
exec $HOME/usr/bin/fvwm2
Eoxinitrc
> The problem is I'm getting too many error msg's. For
> example if I open up dtmail I get the following:
>
> libSDtMail: Warning: Xt Warning: Cannot allocate
> colormap entry for "LightGoldenRodYellow"
>
> Or if I open an xterm with colors I get the following
> error
> Warning: Cannot allocate colormap entry for "green"
These messages are totally unrelated. The problem is you're running
(I'll bet) in 8-bit color mode. I don't know what framebuffer you've
got, but if you're on an Ultra-1, I wouldn't be at all surprised if
that's the best it can do. Something is eating all your colors,
causing other applications not to be able to have the ones they want.
fvwm2 should automatically limit itself to a small number of colors,
via the ColorLimit command (I'm not sure this is true in 2.2.4). You
may want to consider using ColorLimit in your .fvwm2rc.
> BTW I don't have an .xinitrc file. Could this be the
> problem? I really don't know if I'm starting up fvwm2
> the right way, if there's a better way please advise.
> Thanks!
Yup, that's the problem.
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Received on Mon Nov 27 2000 - 13:02:54 GMT