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From: brian@ima.isc.com (Brian Holt Hawthorne)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x.motif
Subject: Re: Novice-question: NCD17c and Motif: Howto setup colors ?
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Date: 12 Dec 90 20:03:46 GMT
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In article <1210@aut.autelca.ascom.ch>, dhuber@aut.autelca.ascom.ch (Daniel Huber) writes:
|> I have a color NCD X-Terminal and motif on a HP/9000/835 with HP-UX7.0
|> 
|> Seems I'm not able to setup the colors in this environment.
|> Whenever I start motif, it uses always the same colors. 
|> I tried to edit .Xdefaults to change the colors, nothing happened.
|> I tried to start some X-clients with color options. The only colors I
|> can change are black and white (sometimes).
|> The setup procedure described in the X manual (HP) does not work.
|> 
|> The X-Server runs from the NCD-PROM (I do not have tftp yet).
|> 
|> What do I have to to for getting MY colors?

Use a .Xresources file, and load it into the server's resource database
with xrdb. You should have stopped using .Xdefaults a long time ago.
Unfortunately, the Motif documentation seems to have been written by
someone who didn't know this.

		=brian

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