Re: Color symbols problem w/ native xorg under current

["Steven M. Bellovin" <smb%cs.columbia.edu@localhost>]

On Mon, 3 Nov 2008 19:55:55 +0100
Peter Bex <Peter.Bex%xs4all.nl@localhost> wrote:

> Hi there,
> 
> Now I have xorg up and running, and removed the pkgsrc xorg, I noticed
> a really strange problem: Named colors can be used, but direct
> rgb specifications are not recognised properly.  For example:
> 
> $ xterm -fg green
> 
> works without problems (and shows a green foreground color), while
> this happens with a color specification:
> 
> $ xterm -fg \#2a9
> Warning: Color name "#2a9" is not defined
> 
> Even stranger is the fact that xterm continues to start up and
> displays the blueish color that 2a9 is.
> 
> xdpyinfo tells me I'm on a 24 bits default visual, and
> multimedia/mplayer and www/links-gui display high-color pictures just
> fine.
> 
> twm (from pkgsrc, as the base one has problems with its default config
> file, apparently) also complains: invalid color name "rgb:2/a/9"
> 
> This is on macppc, with userland from ~two days ago.
> 
I see the same thing on i386 from a week ago.


                --Steve Bellovin, http://www.cs.columbia.edu/~smb