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Allocating color problems

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Sheldon E. Newhouse)
Sun Nov 3 10:34:05 1996

Date: Sun, 3 Nov 1996 10:31:58 -0500 (EST)
From: "Sheldon E. Newhouse" <sen1@math.msu.edu>
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Running X, I frequently get the following message.

Warning: Cannot allocate colormap entry for default background

And, yes, some colors don't show up.
If I close a few windows then things work OK. 

How can this be fixed by some hardware/software combination?


TIA,

-sen
 
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