Subject: Re: several mac68k/X/pkg problems
To: None <port-mac68k@netbsd.org, pkgsrc-users@netbsd.org>
From: Tim & Alethea Larson <thelarsons3@cox.net>
List: pkgsrc-users
Date: 05/29/2006 09:21:28
William Duke wrote:
> On Tue, 2006-16-05 at 02:51 -0400, thelarsons3@cox.net wrote:
>> When trying to run aterm (my preferred terminal app) I get a similar error ''aterm: can't load color "White", colorID = 0, (29)'' just before it aborts.  This package runs fine on the machine that built it.  I assume these are due to a missing definition file somewhere, but what?
>>
> 
> I encountered this problem with aterm yesterday, while attempting to
> color match the foreground (text) color with that of xmms.  Do you know
> if there is a list of available colors for use in aterm?
> 
> I know all of the basic colors, like blue, green, red, yellow, white,
> etcetera.   I'm wondering if it's possible to get different shades or
> hues of a certain color though.   For example, I'm using aterm with
> transparency and a gray tint with a blue foreground, but I'd like to use
> a lighter blue than the one that I get by simply specifying -fg blue.

Well, I discovered the rgb.txt file (which contains named colors), which 
I thought would solve my problem when I made sure the color names that 
were giving errors were included.  I still get the errors, though, even 
after restarting X, which I assume would reread this file.

Tim

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Tim & Alethea
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