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xwpe installation

  • 23-01-2002 6:24pm
    #1
    alb
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,259 ✭✭✭


    I have an rpm for a programming enviromnet called xwpe, I've not used rpm much so i may have done something wrong installing it.

    rpm -ivh xwpe.....rpm

    but when i try to run the xwpe program afterwards, i get the following error:

    xwpe: all colorcells allocated .....exiting

    anyone have any ideas whats up or how i can fix this?
    I'm running redhat 6.0 if it matters, though it succesfully installed on another machine also running this.

    Cheers,
    Alb


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  • #2
    logic1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,859 ✭✭✭logic1


    Are you running Netscape at the same time? If so, start netscape with

    netscape -install

    The problem you're having is that the X colormap is being eaten up by
    another program, and Xwpe cannot allocate color cells the way it
    wishes. The easiest way to fix this is to stop other programs from eating
    the colormap. Netscape is the usual culprit. -install tells Netscape to
    use a private colormap, and not eat the shared one Xwpe uses.


    .logic.


  • #3
    alb
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,259 ✭✭✭alb


    Umm I wasn't running anything else at the same time, except a couple of x-terms. Is it possible my graphics card is set up incorrectly?


  • #4
    logic1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,859 ✭✭✭logic1


    Xwpe with Gnome desktop?
    If you can't decrease the color usage of Gnome you can use 'xwpe -pcmap' which causes xwpe to use a private color map.


    I've no first hand experience with Xwpe but I did find some things which may help you.

    .logic.


  • #5
    alb
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,259 ✭✭✭alb


    Thanks for all your help logic1 it's much appreciated. using the -pcmap worked and I managed to open xwpe but the colours were all messed up and the whole screen changed from one set of colours to another when i went between xwpe and any other program.
    Anyway I've discovered gvim is a decent replacement for xwpe anyway, so i think i'll just forget about this and use that instead :)
    thanks again


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