QVSS (VR260) windows wedged in Black on Black in xterm
Chet Ramey
chet at cwns5.INS.CWRU.Edu
Thu Jun 15 07:49:54 AEST 1989
In article <666 at physiol.su.oz> johnd at physiol.su.oz (John Dodson) writes:
>In article <12128 at grebyn.COM>, karl at grebyn.COM (Karl Nyberg) writes:
>> Trying to run an xterm from the shell within emacs gives me the following
>> error messages:
>>
>> X Toolkit Warning: Cannot allocate colormap entry for "White"
>> X Toolkit Warning: Cannot allocate colormap entry for "Black"
>No, it is not hardware.
That much is true.
>But, rebuilding your entire X-core to reinstall /usr/bin/X11 & /usr/lib/X11
>will fix the problem.
This is overkill.
This problem is caused by a corrupted rgb database (found by default in
/usr/lib/X11/rgb{.pag,.dir,.txt}). The fix is to reinstall the database
from your sources (just do a `make install' in the rgb source directory).
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