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From: fogel@herald.usask.ca (Earl Fogel)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc
Subject: Re: MacX - simple problem
Keywords: argh
Message-ID: <1990Oct18.215311.2486@herald.usask.ca>
Date: 18 Oct 90 21:53:11 GMT
References: <50433@cmcl2.NYU.EDU>
Organization: University of Saskatchewan
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In article <50433@cmcl2.NYU.EDU> rosenblg@cmcl2.NYU.EDU (Gary J. Rosenblum) writes:
>	A simple question - how can I get the windows to show up in
>color on my Mac IIcx?  I have a unix host xyz, and say
>xterm -bd red -bg blue -fg purple <and so on>, but all I get is a 
>black and white window.  Am I doing something obviously wrong?  Thanks.
>

You have to tell X to use color when you start it.
That is, in /usr/bin/X11/X11 add the options -screen 0
and -depth 0 to the call to xinit, ie.:

xinit xterm -geometry 60x8+0+0 -sb -fn 6x10 -T "console" -e $X11START \
	-- XmacII -screen 0 -depth 8 -logo -v $* >> $DEBUGLOG 2>&1

Since I don't use color all the time, I left the original file alone,
and did this to a copy.  When I want color I use X11c, and when I don't
I use X11.

Earl Fogel    (fogel@sask.usask.ca)
Computing Services
University of Saskatchewan
Canada
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