I recently built and installed 2.0.43 over a much older fvwm 1.x which
I've been using for quite some time (I've tried afterstep and fvwm95
too). The problem I keep running into with all the wm's, but especially
with fvwm2, is a color shortage. I basically just converted my
old .fvwmrc to my .fvwm2rc, adding a couple mini-icons on the titlebar,
but going to fewer colors in xterms and desktop (greys). After I start
netscape (I don't use -install; the focus-flashing drives me crazy),
I can't even start one xterm which uses colors (e.g. blue on black).
Get the old "Warning: Cannot allocate colormap entry for "#22eeff"".
It seems crazy that this (relatively) expensive Sparc5 with 64mb and
a nice 21" monitor is so display-limited when my (relatively) cheap
PC (with a 2mb Number9 vidcard) running linux is color-abundant. What
gives? Is it an inadequate framebuffer (what I call video adapter).
Q: Does fvwm2 "leak" colors, or otherwise somehow waste them?
Q: Is there some (relatively) inexpensive way to upgrade the sparc's
color capabilities?
Been holding onto these questions for awhile now. Any reply from
someone in-the-know will be greatly appreciated.
Stephen Francis
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Received on Wed Jan 08 1997 - 11:01:09 GMT