From owner-freebsd-questions Fri May 24 05:08:03 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id FAA23199 for questions-outgoing; Fri, 24 May 1996 05:08:03 -0700 (PDT) Received: from longstreet.larc.nasa.gov (longstreet.larc.nasa.gov [128.155.25.82]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id FAA23149 for ; Fri, 24 May 1996 05:08:01 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from branson@localhost) by longstreet.larc.nasa.gov (8.6.11/8.6.11) id IAA12828; Fri, 24 May 1996 08:09:20 -0400 From: Branson Matheson Message-Id: <199605241209.IAA12828@longstreet.larc.nasa.gov> Subject: Re: Netscape To: abseil@thehub.com.au (Greg Laslett) Date: Fri, 24 May 1996 08:09:20 -0400 (EDT) Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org (FreeBSD Questions) In-Reply-To: <01BB49B9.5CF8B080@dd04.thehub.com.au> from "Greg Laslett" at May 24, 96 09:25:55 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL21] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > > > I recently downloaded netscape 3 from bsd(Install script) & > netscape(the ....tar.z). When I run netscape.sh I get about > 15 messages like: This means that you do not have the colors available for whatever reason... usually another color hogg running at the same time.. things like xearth, xgal or any other application that may be using all your colors which, if I remember your other letter, means that possibly you are running in the 16 color mode. This would be a good time to look at some of the doc files in /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/doc. > As a result the server does weird color changes when I move in/out > of the netscape windows and gives an unreadable error on startup. This is just the program using it's own color map and switching as you move in and out of that window.. it is not a problem and on systems without room for lots of colors, it allows you to use all 256 for each program. -- ======================================================================== branson matheson | branson@widomaker.com Ferguson SysAdmin | http://widomaker.com/~branson