I just turned all the applications off and restarted the xserver in 16bit
mode. The "cannot allocat colormap entry..." messages went away, but I
can't see my character and pet -- should be "@" and either "f" or "d",
artifacts are very hard to see. Can this be affected with the app-defaults
file?
>
> "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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