On Fri, May 11, 2001 at 11:40:18AM +0200, Christian Hammers wrote:
> This features is broken on my screen:
> xeniac:/etc/X11/app-defaults# xterm
> xterm: Cannot allocate color rgbi:0.2/0.2/1.0
> This error appears when it first tries to e.g. list a directory where I
> use blue color for. When I exchange this string by "blue" it works.
[...]
> class: TrueColor
> depth: 16 planes
> available colormap entries: 64 per subfield
> red, green, blue masks: 0xf800, 0x7e0, 0x1f
> significant bits in color specification: 6 bits
I find it very surprising that you're getting color allocation problems in
a TrueColor visual, since there is no palette.
If true, this makes some of the screaming complaints I've been getting a
little more understandable.
What color is the X server electing to give you? (I don't actually know
how to find this out.) It shouldn't be very far off. I find it rather
amazing that the server is having trouble; if you limit yourself to one
significant digit in the rgbi space, there are only 1000 possible colors,
which is a pretty small portion of even a 15-bit colorspace.
I'm Cc'ing this to the Xpert mailing list so that a cluebat can be
appropriately applied to my head.
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