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From: ted@oz.plymouth.edu (Ted Wisniewski)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: xpaint
Date: 28 Nov 1995 21:58:46 -0500
Organization: Plymouth State College - Plymouth, NH.
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In article <49e5s7$mdl@news.bu.edu> Mikhail Teterin <mi@ALDAN.star89.galstar.com> writes:
>aldan: {49} xpaint
>X Error of failed request: BadDrawable (invalid Pixmap or Window parameter)
> Major opcode of failed request: 14 (X_GetGeometry)
> Resource id in failed request: 0x0
> Serial number of failed request: 1950
> Current serial number in output stream: 1950
>
>)-: Any ideas? Fresh build...
> -mi
>
It has something to do with not enough free colors in the colormap. Close
down your graphical applications and try again. If there were a way to
force xpaint to use a private colormap I do not think it would behave
that way.