Re: Undefined color error

[Ken Keefe <kaje@digitalfamily.org>]

That was it!! Thank you so much! It turns out my RgbPath was this:

RgbPath      "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/rgb.txt"

I dropped the txt, restarted X, and everything is lovely again. Thanks
again!

Ken

On Fri, 2004-11-05 at 11:55 +0100, Pascal Bourguignon wrote:
> Ken Keefe <kaje@digitalfamily.org> writes:
> > > /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/rgb.txt
> > > /usr/share/emacs/21.3/etc/rgb.txt
> > 
> > I checked these files and both have RGB definitions for black. Any other
> > ideas? I recently ran a java program at the command line and received
> > the same error, so it seems to not be merely an emacs problem...
> 
> Then, check whether it's well configured in /etc/X11/XF86Config
> (assuming you're using a XFree X server). There should be a section
> such as:
> 
> Section "Files"
>         RgbPath      "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/rgb"
>         ...
> EndSection
> 
> (the extension should not be provided, because it can be .txt or .db).
> Which makes me think that perhaps the file format of rgb.txt is more
> precise.  My file has spaces between (or after) numbers, and two
> tabulations before the name:
> 
> ...
> 255 250 250^I^Isnow
> 248 248 255^I^Ighost white
> ...
> 252 252 252 ^I^Igrey99
> 255 255 255 ^I^Igray100
> 255 255 255 ^I^Igrey100
> ...
> 
> You may check quickly with: cat -t /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/rgb.txt
>