I had this occur today: xterm -bg black -fg green Warning: Cannot allocate colormap entry for "black" and I wasn't using OO.
It seemed to be brought on by having a large number of tabs open in mozilla. Managed to clear it without having to log out. Regards, DigbyT On Sat, Feb 18, 2006 at 10:54:27PM +0800, Deephay wrote: > Thx for your experience. > I am not very much sure what's the meaning of this sentence: > > an application that wasn't dealing properly with a remote x-term > You mean the installation of some apps / libs affects the system? > > I have installed openoffice recently, not sure if that affects.. > > Cheers, > Deephay > > > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Digby Tarvin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: "debian_user" <debian-user@lists.debian.org> > Sent: Saturday, February 18, 2006 9:39 PM > Subject: Re: cannot load color "black" > > > > Interesting, > > > > I have seen the same thing a couple of times recently - and > > my configuration is unusual enough that it may narrow down > > the cause a bit.. > > > > 1. I am using a NCD X-Terminal on a local lan as my terminal server, > > so I know that the problem has nothing to do with the xorg > > server. > > > > 2. The screen/window manager is xdm/fvwm served by a BSD system, > > which also serves the fonts, and has been running 24/7 for about > > 9 years. So it is not KDE or KDM. > > > > 3. The problem has only happened since I installed Sarge on a > > notebook and started running applications from it on my NCD, > > so I believe it is something in Debian, and evidently not > > restricted to a single release, since you are using etch. > > > > I had assumed that it was a problem with an application that > > wasn't dealing properly with a remote x-term, and suspected > > mozilla and openoffice. > > > > Once it starts, it effects all applications, even ones running on > > different computers - so it appears to be some sort of resource > > problem caused on the server. Usually logging out completely and > > then logging back into my X session resolves the problem. > > > > Thats all I have at the moment. Hope that helps. > > > > Regards, > > DigbyT > > > > On Sat, Feb 18, 2006 at 01:24:20PM +0800, Deephay wrote: > >> Greetings all, > >> > >> Some of my applications like xscreensaver (also rxvt and other apps) > >> will return some information like: "Cannot parse color black" or "Cannot > >> load color black". > >> some of them (like xscreensaver) only returns the message but still > >> running correctly and some of them (like rxvt) cannot be executed anymore. > >> Is this a problem with the xorg server or some libs? thx! > >> I am using etch. > >> > >> Deephay > >> > >> > >> -- > >> To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >> with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > -- > > Digby R. S. Tarvin > > digbyt(at)digbyt.com > > http://www.digbyt.com > > > > > > -- > > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > -- Digby R. S. Tarvin digbyt(at)digbyt.com http://www.digbyt.com -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
