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From: tundra@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu (John Kemp)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.hp
Subject: Re: X failing to Redraw
Message-ID: <1990Mar25.031055.21491@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu>
Date: 25 Mar 90 03:10:55 GMT
Sender: tundra@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu (John Kemp)
Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana
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I posted recently asking if anyone had seen their "X"
fail to redraw overlapping windows.  I also noticed that
changes made to the sys.Xdefaults were not taking effect.
After some serious headbanging here is the answer...

Make the files in /usr/lib/X11 OWNED BY BIN!!!!!!!!!!!!!

If they are owned by root, even if the protection is 777
I don't think X will read them at start up.  The results  
of not having these files BIN owned is that your color table
gets completely foobarred and most of the entries end up 
being black .i.e. invisible.

Thanks for all who responded, (though nobody came up with
this answer)

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