Re: cannot load color "black"
I had this occur today:
xterm -bg black -fg green
Warning: Cannot allocate colormap entry for "black"
and I wasn't using OO.
It seemed to be brought on by having a large number of tabs open in
mozilla.
Managed to clear it without having to log out.
Regards,
DigbyT
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?
>
> I have installed openoffice recently, not sure if that affects..
>
> Cheers,
> Deephay
>
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Digby Tarvin" <digbyt@acm.org>
> To: "debian_user" <debian-user@lists.debian.org>
> Sent: Saturday, February 18, 2006 9:39 PM
> Subject: Re: cannot load color "black"
>
>
> > Interesting,
> >
> > I have seen the same thing a couple of times recently - and
> > my configuration is unusual enough that it may narrow down
> > the cause a bit..
> >
> > 1. I am using a NCD X-Terminal on a local lan as my terminal server,
> > so I know that the problem has nothing to do with the xorg
> > server.
> >
> > 2. The screen/window manager is xdm/fvwm served by a BSD system,
> > which also serves the fonts, and has been running 24/7 for about
> > 9 years. So it is not KDE or KDM.
> >
> > 3. The problem has only happened since I installed Sarge on a
> > notebook and started running applications from it on my NCD,
> > so I believe it is something in Debian, and evidently not
> > restricted to a single release, since you are using etch.
> >
> > I had assumed that it was a problem with an application that
> > wasn't dealing properly with a remote x-term, and suspected
> > mozilla and openoffice.
> >
> > Once it starts, it effects all applications, even ones running on
> > different computers - so it appears to be some sort of resource
> > problem caused on the server. Usually logging out completely and
> > then logging back into my X session resolves the problem.
> >
> > Thats all I have at the moment. Hope that helps.
> >
> > Regards,
> > DigbyT
> >
> > On Sat, Feb 18, 2006 at 01:24:20PM +0800, Deephay wrote:
> >> Greetings all,
> >>
> >> Some of my applications like xscreensaver (also rxvt and other apps)
> >> will return some information like: "Cannot parse color black" or "Cannot
> >> load color black".
> >> some of them (like xscreensaver) only returns the message but still
> >> running correctly and some of them (like rxvt) cannot be executed anymore.
> >> Is this a problem with the xorg server or some libs? thx!
> >> I am using etch.
> >>
> >> Deephay
> >>
> >>
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