[4398] in SIPB bug reports
Re: exmh error
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (nocturne@MIT.EDU)
Thu Feb 24 13:23:25 1994
From: nocturne@MIT.EDU
To: jerrod@MIT.EDU
Cc: bug-sipb@MIT.EDU
In-Reply-To: Your message of Thu, 24 Feb 94 11:04:15 -0500.
<9402241604.AA15221@m2-225-13.MIT.EDU>
Date: Thu, 24 Feb 94 13:22:32 EST
Jerrod,
You seem to be having this error periodically with exmh:
> no more colors left in colormap; changing screen's color model to monochrome
> (while allocating color "#b03060")
(or something quite similar)
In one of your earlier bug reports you mentioned that you run a background
picture. This is the reason that exmh is unhappy; your background picture
is using all the colors up, leaving few or none for exmh to claim for its
own.
There are ways to force xv to display a background picture without using
*all* available colors. You can add the argument -ncols number to the xv
command line, where 'number' is some number. I think that most color
displays have 256 colors, so if you use some number like 230 or 240
(depending on how many colors you use elsewhere) that might work better.
If you don't use xv to load your background pictures, there may be a
way to limit the colors used anyway... feel free to stop by the SIPB
office or ask OLC or whatever if you want help with that....
- Eric
