Re: [TCLUG:12350] Color Question

[Perry Hoekstra <dutchman@uswest.net>]

Jon Schewe wrote:
> 
> 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.

Wasn't that set when I chose the resolution as part of the X config?

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Perry Hoekstra
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