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From: qfhca81@memqa.uucp (Henry Melton)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.aux
Subject: Re: Problems with X11 colors
Message-ID: <13144@memqa.uucp>
Date: 10 Dec 90 10:56:14 GMT
References: <1990Dec9.191317.26237@engin.umich.edu>
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In article <1990Dec9.191317.26237@engin.umich.edu>, 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.
> 
> Paul Bombach

Make sure the executable permissions are turned on.  Mine works as advertised. 

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