[aklug] Re: Using X11

On Mon, April 13, 2009 8:52 am, Thomison, Lee wrote:
>
> But, when I try to run the app, it starts, draws some nice boxes, I see stu=
> ff I should see, then get an error that says 'unable to allocate colors'. =
> =20
>
> I've poked and prodded at this for a couple of years now. It seems that th=
> e old app wants 256 colors, and gets cranky if mydesktop is different. Goo=
> gling yields the valuable information that (summarized) 'some old or poorly=
> behaved applications may expect 16 or 256 colors'. The usual suggestion o=
> n how to handle this is to not write the application to do that in the firs=
> t place. =20

Maybe I misunderstand, but couldn't you solve the problem by running
your desktop X server with 256 colors? I mean, it wouldn't be pretty,
but it's technically possible, right?

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Bryan Medsker
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