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

From: Kai Grossjohann <grossjohann_at_charly.informatik.uni-dortmund.de>
Date: 17 Feb 1997 09:10:11 +0100

>>>>> stephenf_at_sybase.com said:

  SF> I can't even start one xterm which uses colors (e.g. blue on
  SF> black). Get the old "Warning: Cannot allocate colormap entry
  SF> for "#22eeff"".

>>>>> Stephen Williams writes:

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

Alternatives:

"netscape -install". Produces colormap flashing.

"netscape -ncols 150". Gifs aren't as pretty as they could be, if
Netscape isn't allowed to use more than 150 colors. I use this
alternative most of the time.

kai
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Received on Mon Feb 17 1997 - 02:10:43 GMT

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