Re: FVWM: fvwm95 unusable because it exhausts colormaps

From: Robert Woodworth <woodwort_at_utmc.utc.com>
Date: Fri, 12 Feb 1999 13:20:57 -0700

Are you shure your Sun is running at a high color depth??

My Sun Ultra 1 with Creator graphics had a default install with an 8bit
PsutoColor depth. I changed it with a defdepth 24 option where the Xsun
starts.

Be ware, some apps will not run at this setting.


Woody.


John wrote:
>
> Forgive my mailing to this list (I sent to the fvwm95 list last night,
> but it doesn't seem to very active) ...
>
> I've recently compiled and installed both
>
> fvwm95-2.0.43a-Autoconf.tgz
> fvwm95-2.0.43b-Autoconf.tar.gz
>
> on our network here at Utah.
>
> They both are unable, with just the standard modules, to open up
> anything that requires colors (failing with messages like
>
> Warning: Cannot allocate colormap entry for "grey50"
>
> I'm running this process on a Sun Ultra60 with Creator 3D card and
> lots of memory!
>
> I'd like to make this the default window manager in a lab of about 120
> workstations but can't in it's present state.
>
> Any suggestions?
>
> Thanks much,
> John
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Received on Fri Feb 12 1999 - 14:32:53 GMT

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