Re: FVWM: Solaris 2.51, fvwm2 2.0.43 and the color shortage

From: Stephen Williams <steve_at_icarus.icarus.com>
Date: Sun, 16 Feb 1997 19:17:53 -0800

stephenf_at_sybase.com said:
> 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"".

Netscape sucks up vast amounts of colors. It WILL fill up a color map
on an 8 bit deep display. And most sun framebuffers are only 8bits deep.
You have X on your Number9 configured to 16bits? Use xdpyinfo to see what
your X display can do.

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Received on Sun Feb 16 1997 - 21:18:21 GMT