Re: cannot load color "black"
Thx for you nice explanation!
seems that the problem doesn't affect the system much
I think I will just remove openoffice and see if that affects
But I'll still install OO back again...:)
----- Original Message -----
From: "Digby Tarvin" <digbyt@acm.org>
To: "debian_user" <debian-user@lists.debian.org>
Sent: Sunday, February 19, 2006 1:09 AM
Subject: Re: cannot load color "black"
> On Sat, Feb 18, 2006 at 10:54:27PM +0800, Deephay wrote:
>> Thx for your experience.
>> I am not very much sure what's the meaning of this sentence:
>> > an application that wasn't dealing properly with a remote x-term
>> You mean the installation of some apps / libs affects the system?
>
> To really understand X you have to appreciate that it was designed
> as a network protocol that could be used to access display (and input)
> hardware remotely. An application opens a server using the X protocol,
> and is able to interact with the user sitting at that server.
>
> The net effect is that you can be working on numerous different
> applications spread over many different computers, and they are
> all accessed in an equal manner using the same screen and keyboard.
> You choose the computer which handles the login via the XDMCP protocol.
>
> Since then there has been a trend towards building display hardware
> and computer in the same box, so that the server software and application
> run on the same machine, making for a much faster communications path.
>
> In this situation you can some times get away with things that won't
> work in the more traditional configuration. For example, X servers
> running on your own CPU have your VM so often have few memory
> restrictions, whereas a hardware X terminal (usually) has no disk and
> is typically limitted to a few tens of meg. Or if you rely on
> continually transferring the same bitmaps rather than caching
> them, it might work with a local server communicating via shared
> memory, but but struggle on a 10Mb Ethernet.
>
> So for all you X application developers and packagers out there, make
> sure you test those applications local *and* remote if we are not to
> lose much of the power of X ;)
>
>> I have installed openoffice recently, not sure if that affects..
>
> If the problem only started after that, then it would make it a prime
> suspect.
>
> I only use it when some uncultured heathen sends me something in a
> Microsoft specific format and I can't get it sent in anything more
> Unix friendly. It is much too big and slow for my taste, and I don't
> like kitchen sink software that tries to do everything in one big
> application - though that is not really a criticism of OO's
> designers. They had to follow the lead of the application they
> were seeking to provide an escape from.
>
> In any case I was doing so last time the problem happened, so I
> suspected it.
>
> Regards,
> DigbyT
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