Date: Mon, 18 Jan 1999 18:39:09 +0000 From: Mark Ovens <marko@uk.radan.com> To: "N. R.R." <robalama@yahoo.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: color sharing in X Message-ID: <36A37FCD.39D6CAE9@uk.radan.com> References: <19990118165637.2580.rocketmail@send105.yahoomail.com>
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"N. R.R." wrote: > > Hello, > > If this is not the right place for this question, please let me know. > > I noticed in Netscape (every once in a while) and EVERY time I run > xfmail 1.1, they have trouble sharing the colors. > > here are the messages: > Netscape: > > Netscape: subprocess diagnostics (stdout/stderr) > > Warning: Cannot allocate colormap entry for default background. > > xfmail 1.1: > > #xfmail & > xfmail v1.1 > (C)..... > Compiled ..... > Fialed to share colors using private colormap > > Is there something I need to specify in my X startup? > Are you running at 256 colours (8bpp)?, can your graphics card support greater colour depth?. If so try starting X with ``startx -- -bpp 16'' (or 24, or 32). > Thanks again. > > Neill > > _________________________________________________________ > DO YOU YAHOO!? > Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message -- Trust the computer industry to shorten Year 2000 to Y2K. It was this thinking that caused the problem in the first place. My homepage http://www.users.globalnet.co.uk/~markov Mark Ovens, CNC Apps Engineer, | mailto:marko@uk.radan.com Radan Computational Ltd | http://www.radan.com Bath, England. CAD/CAM solutions | FreeBSD - The Power To Serve for the Sheetmetal Work industry.| http://www.freebsd.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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