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Re: Undefined color error
From: |
Pascal Bourguignon |
Subject: |
Re: Undefined color error |
Date: |
05 Nov 2004 06:31:14 +0100 |
User-agent: |
Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.3 |
Ken Keefe <kaje@digitalfamily.org> writes:
> Hello, I recently installed the latest Mandrake Linux distro and emacs
> seems to be broken. Here is what happens when I try to start emacs from
> a terminal:
>
> $ emacs
> Undefined color: "black"
>
> And that is all that happens. I have tried reinstalling it, I even
> installed it from the tarball available on gnu.org. Same thing. I am
> guessing that this might be a problem with X or something? I can do
> emacs -nw and it works, but I like the X version. I have completely
> removed my .emacs file, so I don't think it can be that.
My guess is that it's a X problem too. Check the ~/.Xresources file
You may have lines like:
emacs*Background: white
emacs*Foreground: black
emacs*pointerColor: red
emacs*cursorColor: black
X keeps a dictionnary of color names in files named rgb.txt. It seems
emacs has a copy in its etc directory too:
/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/rgb.txt
/usr/share/emacs/21.3/etc/rgb.txt
These files contains RGB values in decimal followed by the name of the
color:
255 255 250 white
255 250 250 snow
248 248 255 ghost white
248 248 255 GhostWhite
245 245 245 white smoke
245 245 245 WhiteSmoke
...
255 0 0 red
...
0 255 0 green
...
0 0 255 blue
...
0 0 0 black
> Thanks ahead of time for your help. I love emacs!! I feel like I have
> been separated from a brother or something!
--
__Pascal Bourguignon__