On Wed, 2006-05-24 at 13:40 -0600, clemens@xxxxxxx wrote: > Ive only had a few minutes to play with FC5, but one of the things Ive noticed > is that while COLOR seems fine if Im running GNOME, if I bring up TWM > suddenly programs dont seem to be able to find colors. > > my .xinitrc file (long before it mentions 'twm' ) tries to set the background > to grey > with > xsetroot -solid grey50 > > and I get the error message that grey50 is not understood. Similarly, the > xterm > is all black and white. > > I don't see any comments relevant to this in the FC5 Release notes (and would > expect programs provided like xterm and xsetroot to understand any new > conventions) > > Is there something new that an X11 startup script has to do to get COLOR s to > work? > Some new argument on the X11 startup itself? > > Sorry, just havent had the time to dig this out myself. Try adding: RGBPath "/usr/share/X11/rgb" to the "Files" section of /etc/X11/xorg.conf, restart X and see if that helps. Paul.
