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From: "Matthew D. Fuller" <fullermd@futuresouth.com>
To: Doug White <dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu>
cc: "Min Huang (tunny)" <hmin@public.cq.sc.cn>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject: Re: color?
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On Wed, 8 Oct 1997, Doug White wrote:

> On Wed, 8 Oct 1997, Min Huang (tunny) wrote:
> 
> > Hi,sir,
> > 
> > % ico -faces -colors red blue -sleep 1
> > ico: can't allocate enough color planes
> > 
> > What's the matter?
> 
> This means that some program that uses a lot of color (Netscape et. al.)
> is using up all the colors of your display.  Either:
> 
> 1.  Exit color-hogging programs.
> 2.  Increase the number of colors your display can show, at the possible
> expense of reduced desktop 
> 
> #2 requires some knowledge of your video hardware and of /etc/XF86Config.
A third possible option could be to run it with a private color set (I
believe -install is the option).  I used to have to do this with netscape
when I have some very pretty but very colorful fractals xv'd in my root
window.

> 
> Doug White                              | University of Oregon  
> Internet:  dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu    | Residence Networking Assistant
> http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite    | Computer Science Major

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