RE: Color problems

[Suhaib Siddiqi <ssiddiqi at inspirepharm dot com>]

Is this problem specific to LyX or do you see with other clients too?
Sorry if you have already answered it.

Thanks
Suhaib

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Idar Tollefsen [mailto:Idar.Tollefsen@baerum.kommune.no]
> Sent: Tuesday, June 05, 2001 4:02 AM
> To: cygwin-xfree@sourceware.cygnus.com
> Subject: RE: Color problems
> 
> > Here they are.  I think you find them
> > under extra/etc/X11/xdm ...
> 
> Thanks for the files.
> 
> But still no go. The messages remain
> the same. I'm repeating my original mail
> here, just to clarify the situation once more:
> 
> ------------------------------------------------------------------
> When starting X, I get a few of the
> following messages:
> 
> Warning: Color name "[color name]" is
> not defined
> 
> Where color name is black, yellow and red.
> 
> I'm also trying to run LyX, the Win32 version,
> on this X server. It fires up just fine, but the
> colors are all screwed up, and in the underlying
> xterm, there's a lot of messages like
> 
> In LoadXPM [pixmap.c 409] error reading
> [path and file name of XPM file] (Can't get color)
> 
> and
> 
> X can't find color "[color name]". Set to "black"!
> 
> What can I do about this? Should I have some
> environment variable point to some sort of
> RGB database?
> ------------------------------------------------------------------
> 
> After this posting, I have confirmed that rgb.txt
> is present, and that "showrgb" yields the correct
> result (that is to say, it doesn't give me any error
> messages).
> 
> I now also have .Xdefaults and .Xresources
> in my $HOME dir.
> 
> This is really starting to bug me. I can't believe
> I'm the only one who has this problem...?
> 
> 
> 
> - IT