From owner-freebsd-current Mon Feb 9 05:46:07 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id FAA02735 for current-outgoing; Mon, 9 Feb 1998 05:46:07 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from master.inter-linc.net ([12.10.101.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id FAA02730 for ; Mon, 9 Feb 1998 05:46:05 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from cdillon@inter-linc.net) Received: from cheetah.inter-linc.net (12.10.101.18) by master.inter-linc.net (Worldmail 1.3.167); 9 Feb 1998 07:44:21 -0600 Message-ID: X-Mailer: XFMail 1.1 [p0] on FreeBSD Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <19980209002408.02309@top.worldcontrol.com> Date: Mon, 09 Feb 1998 07:44:04 -0600 (CST) From: Chris Dillon To: brian@worldcontrol.com Subject: RE: rxvt: can't load color "darkslateblue" ; aborting Cc: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On 09-Feb-98 brian@worldcontrol.com wrote: >I'm running -current. After working on my laptop for some time, I >find that I can't create any more rxvt windows. > >Specifically I get: > >brian@top>rxvt >rxvt: can't load color "darkslateblue" >rxvt: can't load color "White" >rxvt: aborting > >I found in /var/log/messages that apparently some other process has >had similar complaints: > >Warning: Color name "black" is not defined >Warning: Color name "Black" is not defined > >If I reboot the systems, the problem is gone, and then comes back later. > >What is happening? Nothing is wrong, really. If you are using an 8-bit color depth (256 colors) not all applications can get the colors they want, and must share amongst what is available. Use a 16-bit or 24-bit color depth and those messages will disappear (not to mention everything will just generally look better). --- Chris Dillon --- cdillon@inter-linc.net --- Powered by FreeBSD, the best operating system on the planet for Intel x86 based computers (and soon Sparcs). ---- (http://www.freebsd.org) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe current" in the body of the message