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RE: Non-fatal error message "RGB_DB"
- To: "Harold Hunt" <Harold at compasstechnologies dot com>, "Cygx \(E-mail\)" <cygwin-xfree at sources dot redhat dot com>
- Subject: RE: Non-fatal error message "RGB_DB"
- From: "Suhaib Siddiqi" <ssiddiqi at inspirepharm dot com>
- Date: Mon, 11 Sep 2000 06:35:36 -0400
>
> I figured it out; package xfree86-4.0-devel.tar.bz2 contains the file
> /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/X11/rgb.txt. Without this file TWM uses a color scheme
> that has text being the same color as the background color, with the file,
> TWM uses a color scheme that is readable and usable. XFCE does
> not exhibit
> the text color problem, but XFCE does look a lot better with the rgb.txt
> file in place.
>
> So, I suppose that I have to list xfree86-4.0-devel.tar.bz2 as a required
> download, eh? That's rather unfortunate, as only a single 17kB file is
> needed from that 28MB archive.
>
> Should we repackage rgb.txt in one of the other archives, or
> leave it as is?
one can simply copy rgb.txt file from a Linux box. I will put it on ftb
server.
Suhaib
>
> Harold L Hunt II
> Phone: 800-850-1616 ext 108
> Email: harold@compasstechnologies.com
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Harold Hunt [mailto:Harold@compasstechnologies.com]
> Sent: Monday, September 11, 2000 12:21 AM
> To: Cygx (E-mail)
> Subject: Non-fatal error message "RGB_DB"
>
> Following my installation how-to instructions exactly, I still receive the
> following non-fatal error when XWin.exe launches:
>
> "Couldn't open RGB_DB '/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/rgb' "
>
> Any ideas why? Am I missing a package in my list of packages to download?
> If so, which package?
>
> The current list of packages to download in my how-to is as follows:
> xfree86-4.0-DLLs.tar.bz2
> xfree86-4.0-fonts.tar.bz2
> xfree86-4.0-Xterm.tar.bz2
> xfree86-4.0-Xwin.tar.bz2
> xfree86-4.0-Prog.tar.bz2
>
> Harold L Hunt II
> Phone: 800-850-1616 ext 108
> Email: harold@compasstechnologies.com