Re: Problem running Xwpe

[Kenneth Flynn <flynnk@astro.umd.edu>]

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.

At some point I will add this to the poorly maintained FAQ:

http://www.astro.umd.edu/~flynnk/xwpe-faq.html

Kenn


At 11:39 AM 9/5/01 +0200, Sergio Gallego DSP wrote:
>Hi all!!
>
>I've just installed Xwpe-1.5.26a but can´t make it work. I've followed the 
>steps read at INSTALL (configure, make, make install, make clean) and then 
>tried to run it with "Xwpe" getting the following output:
>
>"Xwpe: all colorcells aloocated, exiting ..."
>
>Also tried with "Xwpe myfile.c" with the same output. What am I doing 
>bad?? My system is a intel-Solaris8 and I can run as root.
>
>Thanks in advance,
>
>Sergio.
>
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