Re: x-display-color-cells returns wrong number

[Jan D.]

> In GNU Emacs 21.3.50.71 (i686-pc-linux-gnu, GTK+ Version 2.0.2)
>  of 2004-02-28 on defun.localdomain
> configured using `configure '--with-gtk''
>
> `x-display-color-cells' returns a far too low number for me:
>
>   (x-display-color-cells) => 64
>
> I noticed because of the recent change in font-lock.el -- since
> 64 < 88 I now get really ugly font-lock colours.

This function does not look to have been changed for a very long time.
It basically just returns
DisplayCells (dpyinfo->display,
              XScreenNumberOfScreen (dpyinfo->screen))

Have you changed X server lately?  Can you send the output of xdpyinfo
here?

Thanks,

        Jan D.