Re: Undefined color error

[Ken Keefe]

On Fri, 2004-11-05 at 06:31 +0100, Pascal Bourguignon wrote:
> 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

I checked these files and both have RGB definitions for black. Any other
ideas? I recently ran a java program at the command line and received
the same error, so it seems to not be merely an emacs problem...

Thanks,
Ken

>  
> 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!
>