Re: X colors changing?

[Julian Gilbey <J.D.Gilbey@qmw.ac.uk>]

On Thu, Jun 21, 2001 at 08:09:43PM -0400, cfm@maine.com wrote:
> 
> My workstation went black and white only when I tried to
> install mozilla current unstable.  Turned out to be menu
> (which I thought it needed) screwing up my fvwm init scripts.
> Check the equiv for whatever window manager you use.  Just
> a guess.

Thanks for the pointer!

It seems to be that the icons in some packages have so many colours
that they use up the whole colour palette, or something like this.  I
solved the problem by changing my /etc/menu-methods/fvwm:

 function start($var,$com)=\
             "+ \"" escfirst(title(),$hotkey,"&") \
-            cond_surr(icon(),"%","%") "\" " $var " " $com "\n"
+            "\" " $var " " $com "\n"

Then I get no icons in my menu but I still have colours left in my
palette!

> On Thu, Jun 21, 2001 at 11:18:36PM +0100, Julian Gilbey wrote:
> > I'm really bemused.  I've just upgraded from 4.0.3-3 to -4 of the X
> > suite of packages, and suddenly many of the standard colours I use are
> > no longer available.  For example:
> > 
> > polya:~ $ xsetroot -solid darkgreen
> > xsetroot:  unable to allocate color for "darkgreen"
> > 
> > And suddenly my xterm colours have significantly changed, as have my
> > window manager colours.
> > 
> > I'm running at 8bpp on a laptop (more details available if needed).
> > 
> > Anyone have any ideas what might have happened?

   Julian

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