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Date: Thu, 9 Oct 1997 09:48:38 -0700 (PDT)
From: Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu>
Reply-To: Doug White <dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu>
To: "Min Huang (tunny)" <hmin@public.cq.sc.cn>
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Subject: Re: color?
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On Thu, 9 Oct 1997, Min Huang (tunny) wrote:

> > > % ico -faces -colors red blue -sleep 1
> > > ico: can't allocate enough color planes
> > 
> > This means that some program that uses a lot of color (Netscape et. al.)
> > is using up all the colors of your display.  Either:
> > 
> 
> I was not using those type programs, but just a CXterm(will be this??),and
> I was under startx -bpp 16 mode.

What window manager are you using?

What does `xdpyinfo' report as the current bit depth?

Doug White                              | University of Oregon  
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