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Date: Thu, 26 Feb 1998 14:24:10 +1030
From: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com>
To: Chris Coleman <chris@bb.cc.wa.us>, questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject: Re: Colors in xterm on -STABLE
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On Wed, 25 February 1998 at 19:44:29 -0800, Chris Coleman wrote:
> I keep getting this error:
>
> Warning: Cannot allocate colormap entry for "red3"
>
> I get several of them.
>
> I was trying to take screenshots and need the colors.
>
> Where do I look to fix this problem?
>
> Is it in the FreeBSD system, or XFree86 system?  or just in xterm?
>
> Or just and environment thing I have screwed up?

At a guess, you're running at 8 bits per pixel (total of 256 colours)
and have something on the root display which uses up most of them.  If
you start X without a backdrop, you should no longer have this
problem.

What are you using for the screen shots?  I use xv, and I haven't run
into this problem under those circumstances.

Greg

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