Re: (error Undefined color lightyellow)

[Jim Morris]

You are correct on both points.  Netscape had used up all of the colors and
I had forgotten that X doesn't care about spaces in the color names.  I'm
sorry about taking up your time.

Thanks,
Jim

Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> On Wed, 16 Jan 2002 jmorris@sunflower.com wrote:
>
> > I am receiving Undefined color for grey95 and light yellow on
> > solaris8/intel and Solaris 2.6/sparc when using the help menu --
> > specifically browsing the info manuals.
> >     
>
> These colors are used by the tooltips (a.k.a. ``balloon help''), so the 
> problem happens when Emacs wants to display a tooltip, e.g., to explain a 
> menu item.
>
> > The X11 rgb.txt file appears to be using "light yellow" instead.
> >       
>
> I thought blanks (and letter case) are insignificant in X color names.  
> Aren't they?
>
> FWIW, I don't have any problems with grey95 and lightyellow on Solaris 2.8.
>
> Is it possible that some other program running on the same system uses up 
> too many colors, thus preventing Emacs from using them?
>
>
>