Mercurial > emacs
changeset 42900:8f96a03b2596
Document problems with insufficient number of colors on X.
| author | Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> |
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| date | Tue, 22 Jan 2002 11:03:19 +0000 |
| parents | 208cfafce1ab |
| children | a8392117d6de |
| files | etc/PROBLEMS |
| diffstat | 1 files changed, 16 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-) [+] |
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--- a/etc/PROBLEMS Tue Jan 22 08:13:18 2002 +0000 +++ b/etc/PROBLEMS Tue Jan 22 11:03:19 2002 +0000 @@ -246,6 +246,22 @@ problem, you should look for a way to configure Emacs so that it uses terminfo when built. +* Error messages about undefined colors on X. + +The messages might say something like this: + + Unable to load color "grey95" + +(typically, in the `*Messages*' buffer), or something like this: + + Error while displaying tooltip: (error Undefined color lightyellow) + +These problems could happen if some other X program has used up too +many colors of the X palette, leaving Emacs with insufficient system +resources to load all the colors it needs. + +A solution is to exit the offending X programs before starting Emacs. + * Colors are not available on a tty or in xterm. Emacs 21 supports colors on character terminals and terminal