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oringo

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Registered: 2007-08-23

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[SOLVED] Undefined Color: "Black" in freenx

After a recent update, my box that has freenx installed cannot let the client run programs like emacs anymore:

$ emacs
Undefined color: "black"

I've looked around and some 2006 posts on the net points their finger to rgb.txt, however it seems that rgb.txt has been done away a while ago...

Last edited by oringo (2010-11-11 23:30:43)

Strog

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From: Broken Arrow, OK

Registered: 2005-07-05

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Re: [SOLVED] Undefined Color: "Black" in freenx

If you do a strings on nxagent then you'll see it's looking for rgb(.txt) in a few hardcoded places and rgb.txt isn't used by X anymore.

/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/rgb
/usr/NX/share/rgb
/usr/share/X11/rgb
/etc/X11/rgb

There's an rgb file in /opt/NX/share/rgb.  You can symlink it to one of those locations (I chose /etc/X11/rgb) so applications using RGB color calls under freenx can work properly.

oringo

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Registered: 2007-08-23

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Re: [SOLVED] Undefined Color: "Black" in freenx

I had to install nxclient to bring in /opt/NX/share/rgb, but after that symlink to /usr/share/X11/rgb fixed the problem. Thanks Strog!