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Runzajs

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Registered: 2005-10-24

Posts: 24

KDE and RgbPath

Looks like KDE ignore the RgbPath from xorg.conf

Try this to reproduce it:
Controll center / Look and Feel / Background
in the option section klick on the color bar, a select color dialogbox
wil popup, now in the dropdown-list select the last or last-1 entry
called *Defined Colors and you wil get a warning :

Can't read the X11-RGB-Colors
/usr/lib/X11/rgb.txt
/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/rgb
/usr/openwin/lib/X11/rgb.txt

i solve this with a symbolic link :
ln -s /usr/share/X11/rgb.txt /usr/lib/X11/rgb.txt

i dont like do such changes this way because in the future pacman can get confused on such
things (file rgb.txt exsists in filesystem ...) but i know this so its np then.

Bralkein

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Registered: 2004-10-26

Posts: 354

Re: KDE and RgbPath

Submit a bug report?

Runzajs

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Registered: 2005-10-24

Posts: 24

Re: KDE and RgbPath

Submit a bug report?

If this is not related to me only, and you have this to then feel free to do it.

JGC

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Registered: 2003-12-03

Posts: 1,664

Re: KDE and RgbPath

What about setting the correct RgbPath in /etc/X11/xorg.conf? Either set it correct or leave it out.

Runzajs

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Registered: 2005-10-24

Posts: 24

Re: KDE and RgbPath

What about setting the correct RgbPath in /etc/X11/xorg.conf? Either set it correct or leave it out.

it is like it should be acording to the forum/wiki/docs

Section "Files"
RgbPath      "/usr/share/X11/rgb"
.
EndSection

and as i write "Looks like KDE ignore the RgbPath from xorg.conf " !...

Bralkein

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Registered: 2004-10-26

Posts: 354

Re: KDE and RgbPath

Yeah I have the same problem, also my xorg.conf looks fine.

[jack@Jackington ~]$ slocate rgb.txt
/usr/share/X11/rgb.txt
[jack@Jackington ~]$ grep rgb /etc/X11/xorg.conf
# Files section.  This allows default font and rgb paths to be set
    RgbPath     "/usr/share/X11/rgb"

lumiwa

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Registered: 2005-12-26

Posts: 712

Re: KDE and RgbPath

Looks like KDE ignore the RgbPath from xorg.conf

Try this to reproduce it:
Controll center / Look and Feel / Background
in the option section klick on the color bar, a select color dialogbox
wil popup, now in the dropdown-list select the last or last-1 entry
called *Defined Colors and you wil get a warning :

Which KDE do you have? I have 3.5.2 and I don't have what you wrote above?
I have:

Control center / Appearance & Themes / Background 

Bralkein

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Registered: 2004-10-26

Posts: 354

Re: KDE and RgbPath

I have the same thing as you, lumiwa, and I get the same bug. You can also see the bug by right-clicking on the clock->configure clock->foreground colour (click on the bar)->drop-down menu at top right of select colour dialogue->named colours.

If "Named Colours" doesn't do the trick, just run the mouse wheel over the box, one of the choices should set it off at least.

Check it out:
[URL=http://img137.imageshack.us/my.php?image=colourerror9we.png][/URL]

mpie

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From: 404 Not found

Registered: 2005-03-06

Posts: 649

Re: KDE and RgbPath

Confirmed, no named colors present here either

iphitus

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From: Melbourne, Australia

Registered: 2004-10-09

Posts: 4,927

Re: KDE and RgbPath

File a bug then someone

Runzajs

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Registered: 2005-10-24

Posts: 24

Re: KDE and RgbPath

Looks like KDE ignore the RgbPath from xorg.conf

Try this to reproduce it:
Controll center / Look and Feel / Background
in the option section klick on the color bar, a select color dialogbox
wil popup, now in the dropdown-list select the last or last-1 entry
called *Defined Colors and you wil get a warning :

Which KDE do you have? I have 3.5.2 and I don't have what you wrote above?
I have:

Control center / Appearance & Themes / Background 

Controll center / Look and Feel / Background
Reading the words "Control center + Background" should be enought to find it.
(i have translated this in english, so its not must be 100% right, its where you can change you background wallpaper)

This affects all KDE programs where you can open a "select color dialogbox"

Other example :

start kolourpaint (from KDE-menu or from xterm) doubleklick on one of the colors, open the dropdown-list and select last or last-1 item there.

Bralkein

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Registered: 2004-10-26

Posts: 354

Re: KDE and RgbPath

Ok I have figured out that the problem is in the kdelibs config scripts. I will (hopefully) fix it then tell KDE about it. Would it be a good idea to also notify the maintainer of the kdelibs package and also provide him/her with a patch? Probably, I guess there's no point in waiting for KDE 3.5.3 for a fix, right?

mpie

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From: 404 Not found

Registered: 2005-03-06

Posts: 649

Re: KDE and RgbPath

already reported....

Runzajs

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Registered: 2005-10-24

Posts: 24

Re: KDE and RgbPath

Ok I have figured out that the problem is in the kdelibs config scripts. I will (hopefully) fix it then tell KDE about it. Would it be a good idea to also notify the maintainer of the kdelibs package and also provide him/her with a patch? Probably, I guess there's no point in waiting for KDE 3.5.3 for a fix, right?

Plz submit a bug report then : http://bugs.archlinux.org/
and give him some details.

Thx for checking out where the problem is located.

Runzajs

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Registered: 2005-10-24

Posts: 24

Re: KDE and RgbPath

already reported....

i checked here but i dont found any report : ? http://bugs.archlinux.org/?order=date&p … sort2=desc

you have a URL ?

mpie

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From: 404 Not found

Registered: 2005-03-06

Posts: 649

Re: KDE and RgbPath

http://bugs.archlinux.org/task/4559
here

Bralkein

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Registered: 2004-10-26

Posts: 354

Re: KDE and RgbPath

Ok, and I will report it to KDE myself.

Bralkein

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Registered: 2004-10-26

Posts: 354

Re: KDE and RgbPath

I discovered that this problem is simple to fix, requiring only an extra option specified when running the configure script. I will still report the problem to KDE, because obviously their default settings are obsolete and they should probably be trying to autodetect these kind of things anyway.