Re: [TCLUG:12350] Color Question

[Jon Schewe <jpschewe@eggplant.mtu.net>]

Perry Hoekstra wrote:
> 
> Greet the sun all,
> 
> I have not asked a stupid question for a while so I figure what the
> hey!.  I get the following error message from numerous applications
> (Java, Netscape, etc):
> 
> Warning: Cannot allocate colormap entry for default background
> 
> Are they having a problem because my color is set too high or too low
> (depdending on the application)?

You're color depth is set too low.  Starting x with
startx -- -bpp 16 
will set it to 16 bit, 65535 colors.  That's what I run and I never have
colormap problems.
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Jon Schewe 
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