Re: colour map problems

[Carsten Dumke <dumke%informatik.hu-berlin.de@localhost>]

Hi Chris!

On Thu, Oct 02, 1997 at 12:55:18PM +0100, chrisl%cursci.co.uk@localhost wrote:
> I'm having some minor problems with colourmaps under NetBSD1.2, running on a 
> standard Amiga Display.
> 
> I have a variety of window managers installed, including amiwm and fvwm95.
> 
> Some applications seem to be unable to allocate certain colours under some 
> window managers. 
> I.e xfm will display all of it's icons under fvwm95, but less than half of 
> them under amiwm, 
> producing errors along the lines of "unable to allocate colour lightblue".
> Likewise I can not run "Arena" under amiwm, as it is unable to get a certain 
> colour, 
> but it will run under most other window managers.
> 
> How can i get these applications to run correctly. 
You could either:
* run X with more colors (f.i. 32 or 256 (AGA/GFX-card))
* change the .xxxrc file of the window manager to use less colors (e.g.,
  in .fvwm2rc95 change colors to grey, black or white) 

ciao,

Carsten