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Re: Afterstep color problem



On Jun 17, Alberto Ruiz wrote
> This is the first time that I use afterstep.  When I run Netscape in fvwm,
> fvwm95, or almost every other wm, it works fine.  But when I run it in
> afterstep I get the following message:
> 
> Warning:   Cannot allocate colormap entry for default background.
> 
> I also get a error window message saying that it could not get enough
> color cells and that I need to close any other high color resolution
> program, but I'm not running anything else.  
> 
> What's the deal with afterstep?

Afterstep simply uses a lot of colours by default (therefore, out of the box
it works best with 16-bit colour). 

The afsterstep FAQ, /usr/doc/afterstep/FAQ.gz has some more information
about this in under 3.2 "Colormap issues".

HTH,
Ray
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