As a matter of fact, Netscape is exactly what I was running at the time:
I would iconify it and set in the corner, and work on nethack...
I was also told it would help to start the X server in 16bit mode, this
would give me more colors. That fixed the "can't fin color XXX" problem with
angband. I guess I should try 16bit mode and start nethack after exiting
Netscape.
>
> "April G Gruhn" wrote:
>
> > I hav just compiled Nethack-3.2.2 for X11. I can get the game to run,
> > but I get the following errors spuriously:
> >
> > cannot allocat colormap entry for "pale green"
> > cannot allocate colormap entry for "brown"
> > cannto ...                         "light cyan"
> > cannot ...                         "orange"
> > cannot ...                         "royal blue"
> > cannot ...                         "violet"
> >
> > Is there a problem with configuration/compilation, or am I missing a
> > color file, or what???
>
> Are you using another X program that uses lots of colors (netscape is a
> good example)?  You're being told that nethack can't allocate any more
> colors because the X server has run out of colormap entries.  Try either
> shutting down some of your other X clients or running nethack as soon as
> you start X/log in.
>
> Simon.
>


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