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From: pnm@goanna.cs.rmit.oz.au (Paul Menon)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.aux
Subject: Re: Problems with X11 colors
Keywords: X11, color
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Date: 10 Dec 90 00:21:46 GMT
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bombach@caen.engin.umich.edu (Paul Matthew Bombach) writes:

>The X11 user's guide says that putting the following line:

>	X -screen 0 -depth 8 &

>in a .X11 file in the home directory will start X11 with color.  My problem is
>that it does not seem to work.  In other words, I am stuck with black and white.
>Does anyone know how I could fix this?  By the way, my screen is at zero and 
>will support a depth of 8.


You too huh?  Try the other method they suggest - ie coming up with a console
session, and then type in...
	X -screen 0 -depth 8
Warning: I think the whole thing hiccups if you put it in background, so avoid
the "&".  Good luck.

Any comment from our extremely supportive A/UX folk as to why the first
method doesn't work?


    Paul Menon,
    Dept of Computer Science,
    Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology, 
    124 Latrobe Street,
    Melbourne 3001, 
    Victoria, Australia.

pnm@goanna.cs.rmit.oz.au
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