Re: FVWM: starting up FVWM2

From: Dan Espen <dane_at_mk.telcordia.com>
Date: Mon, 27 Nov 2000 14:06:23 -0500

Hyper Faze <fr0sbyte_at_yahoo.com> writes:
> 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.
>
> 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"

If you only have 8 bit color, you can expect to have problems with
color allocation.

You can tell how much color the X server has by looking at the output
of "xdpyinfo".

If you are restricted to 256 colors, (8 bit color), add this line to
the front of your .fvwm2rc:

ColorLimit 61

If you are running Netscape, always start Netscape with the "-install"
flag.

Your mail covered a lot of ground, but the only error messages
I see have to do with color allocation. If you have more issues,
let us know.

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Received on Mon Nov 27 2000 - 13:07:58 GMT

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