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- From: dan@watson.ibm.COM (Walt Daniels)
- Subject: color map exhaustion
- Message-ID: <110492.135506.dan@watson.ibm.com>
- Sender: root@athena.mit.edu (Wizard A. Root)
- Organization: The Internet
- Date: Wed, 4 Nov 1992 18:55:06 GMT
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- If I invoke xcolors, I get the message:
- Cannot allocate colormap entry for "some-color".
- (my rgb.txt has 700+ entries)
-
- Invoking it with the -start option allows me to see a few more.
- However eventually all the entries are used and there is no way to
- allocate any new colors. The result is usually that I get "white"
- which frequently results in a white on white display (not very useful :-).
-
- Another way to cause this same colormap exhaustion problem is to put up
- full color picture backgrounds.
-
- I know the simple answer, "If it hurts, don't do that." Is there
- another more satisfactory answer? Possibly there is a bug of color
- entries not getting freed at appropriate times. Or maybe there is a
- call that will free the unused entries that I don't know about.
-
- I have tried this on both an AIX 3.2.2 R4 based server and
- an MIT R5 (latest patch level) server. Both behave the same.
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