If you had a 24bit framebuffer (a.k.a video adapter) you would not have
this problem. If you had bought one of these with your Sparcstation, you
would not have had to used the word "relatively" when describing how
expensive it was though.....
Randall
On Wed, 8 Jan 1997, Stephen Francis wrote:
: I recently built and installed 2.0.43 over a much older fvwm 1.x which
: I've been using for quite some time (I've tried afterstep and fvwm95
: too). The problem I keep running into with all the wm's, but especially
: with fvwm2, is a color shortage. I basically just converted my
: old .fvwmrc to my .fvwm2rc, adding a couple mini-icons on the titlebar,
: but going to fewer colors in xterms and desktop (greys). After I start
: netscape (I don't use -install; the focus-flashing drives me crazy),
: I can't even start one xterm which uses colors (e.g. blue on black).
: Get the old "Warning: Cannot allocate colormap entry for "#22eeff"".
:
: It seems crazy that this (relatively) expensive Sparc5 with 64mb and
: a nice 21" monitor is so display-limited when my (relatively) cheap
: PC (with a 2mb Number9 vidcard) running linux is color-abundant. What
: gives? Is it an inadequate framebuffer (what I call video adapter).
:
: Q: Does fvwm2 "leak" colors, or otherwise somehow waste them?
: Q: Is there some (relatively) inexpensive way to upgrade the sparc's
: color capabilities?
:
: Been holding onto these questions for awhile now. Any reply from
: someone in-the-know will be greatly appreciated.
:
: Stephen Francis
:
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