RE: xearth 1.0: fatal - unable to allocate enough colors

[Shaleh <shaleh@livenet.net>]

You seem to be answering your own question.  Stop running GNOME panel and see
if the problem goes away.  If it does, complain to the authors of GNOME panel.

In X Windows programming, each app asks for a colormap.  If one app asks for a
large colormap, the window manager doles out whatever is left to everyone else.
 Netscape is also a big offender here.

You reclaim colormaps by closing the offending apps.  It is an issue of X
programming that is rather mytical.  Most people simply accept the colormap
given them by X.  Apparently the GNOME panel is not one of them.

>> 
> I have the same problems even if the only thing I have running is gnome
> panel. I wish this issue can be investigated thouroughly because the
> colormap problem is not so rife on Windows and it seem sto be a huge thing
> on Linux. The same applies to fonts by the way. Does this has anything to
> do with Linux or is it the video card problem? 
> 
> Secondly how can I reclaim lost colormaps or how can I query programs to
> find how many color maps they are using? By the way in my latest test I
> removed .Xdefaults file to make sure that there are no colors used.
> 
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