Re: xterm: cannot allocate color ---

On Tuesday, April 09, 2002 05:01:57 PM -0700 Alberto Lopez 
<[email protected]> wrote:
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| Hello,
|
| I've got SuSE sparc linux on ultra 1.  When i call
| xterm to vi (vim) a file (with colors) an error on
| displaying the colors appear:
|
|     xterm: Cannot allocate color .....
| and a series of colors including
| blue3,green3,cyan3,red3,magenta3,yellow3
|
| How can I get around this problem, and make the xterm
| to find these colors?
|
| Also, is there gnome-terminal for SuSe Sparc? Does the
| multi-gnome-terminal can be installed?  Similarly, is
| there a netscape for SuSE sparc?
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If you have a normal Sun graphics card (e.g. cgsix) then you can only have 
256 colours defined at any one time. This is quite an inconvenience when 
programs like netscape allocate 216. My suggestion is to turn off colours 
in vim. The alternative is to try and convince programs that use a lot of 
colours to use private colour maps, these however cause colour flashing 
that few find pleasing.

/Michael
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