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 Message-ID: <19980226142410.38470@freebie.lemis.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.NEB.3.94.980225193941.749A-100000@bb.cc.wa.us>; from Chris Coleman on Wed, Feb 25, 1998 at 07:44:29PM -0800 References: <Pine.NEB.3.94.980225193941.749A-100000@bb.cc.wa.us>
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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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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