Problems with terminal emulators and color

dobysirius

Until very recently, everything worked fine. But at some point, whenever I launch xterm I would get

pointsman · n00b Joined: 19 Mar 2006 Posts: 4

Same problem here. I've been in the process of migrating to xorg 7.0, and when I finally got the ati-driver to stop with the kernel panics and black-screens, this happens. After reading your post I emerged Konsole, and it worked.

Anyone got any hints on how to get xterm & aterm working again?
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nesl247 · Veteran Joined: 15 Jun 2004 Posts: 1614 Location: Florida

In your xorg.conf, change:

pointsman · n00b Joined: 19 Mar 2006 Posts: 4

Thank you very much! Worked like a charm.
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askwar · Posted: Wed May 10, 2006 8:46 am Post subject: What about VNC?

Hi!

Since recently, I'm seeing the same errors. I'm also using modular X (ie. X7). In my /etc/X11/xorg.conf, I've got:

hielvc · Posted: Sun May 14, 2006 3:19 pm Post subject:

Same problem here. Things Ive tried since changing to xorg-7 and getting this prob. In CL, consoles, ALT-F1 and such run fine.

INFO Portage 2.1_rc1 (default-linux/x86/2005.1, gcc-4.1.0, glibc-2.4-r2, 2.6.15.1 i686)
CFLAGS= "-march=athlon-xp -Os -pipe "

1 different kernel
2 removeing nvidia-kernel
3 removing .Xdefaaults
- 3A. Many edits of .Xdefaults includeing coping tvw/Xterm-color into Xdefaults and then wacking on it some.
4 Changineg Bg/Fg from Black/white to white/black
5 re-emerge ncurses and xterm
6 umpteen checks that " RgbPath "/usr/share/X11/rgb" " is real and in xorg.conf.

Any ncurses based prog like "mc" or kernel "make menuconfig" when run in xterm, becaome white screens with no decrenable text. I normally run with black background and white text.
vim does give me one color a mudy maude for keywords and white text for the rest
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askwar · Posted: Sun May 14, 2006 6:48 pm Post subject:

Hi!

Could you (and anybody else with this problem) please add a comment to the bug xorg 6.8.1.902 undefined color "black", so that the devs see that there is something that needs to be fixed?

Thanks!

hielvc · Posted: Sun May 14, 2006 11:30 pm Post subject:

I just emerged rxvt-2.10.7-r3 and it works fine, well color promt is back, ls outputs color and mc works.
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askwar · Posted: Mon May 15, 2006 5:19 am Post subject:

But in xterm you still get that error, don't you?

When I start gnome-terminal, I also don't get that error. But with some applications, I DO get that error. And sometimes it's not possible to switch the application.

None the less: Could you maybe add a comment to the xorg 6.8.1.902 undefined color "black"?

hielvc · Posted: Mon May 15, 2006 5:26 am Post subject:

I already did, add comment to bug. I'm haveing no probs with "rxvt" but xterm is still screwd.
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askwar · Posted: Wed May 17, 2006 6:43 am Post subject:

Thanks for adding a comment.

The real problem for me is, that it's not only xterm which is screwed (I actually couldn't care less about xterm...), but much more, that other applications (like stm on HP-UX, to which I connect over SSH) are also broken. That's making my work harder - but why am I using ~x86 in the first place, eh?

chaonis · n00b Joined: 05 Apr 2005 Posts: 36

similar problem. Xorg works great under local connection (startx, xdm), but not in VNC environment.

So far I found these two problems:
* xterm gives the warning, but still runs...
mc under xterm gives a black screen, however, the keys still works since I can use F10 to quit the program
* mrxvt gives the warning and terminated.

I am wondering if vncserver is using /etc/X11/xorg.conf. Actually, it must, since when I enable/disable composite option, I can see the changes in XXXXX:1.log file. However, the vnc log gives so little info that I can barely use it for troubleshooting. Anybody knows anyway to activate the more verbose log?

my env:
xorg 7.0-r1 freshly install ( not from 6.8 upgrade)
rgb 1.0.0
kernel 2.6.15-gentoo r7b
tightvnc 1.2.9-r1

chaonis · n00b Joined: 05 Apr 2005 Posts: 36

OK. seems like tight-vnc or maybe other vnc servers still goes to /usr/lib/X11 for the rgb file.

I added the symlink in that folder and all works now:

jekyll · n00b Joined: 07 Mar 2006 Posts: 63