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From: iglesias@draco.acs.uci.edu (Mike Iglesias)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.dec
Subject: Re: DS-5000/CX colors look strange
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Date: 28 Mar 91 16:18:18 GMT
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In article <8664.27f0d7a5@prowest.propress.com> pan@prowest.propress.com writes:
>I have a DECstation-5000/CX.  In running the trivial Motif demos like cedit, I
>noticed that the colors displayed don't very well match my own perception of
>what that colorname represents.  Now, I know that color representation is a
>very personal thing, but I would still expect the colors on the DECstation to
>be more true, if not perfect.

Get a copy of the MIT rgb.txt file and replace the DEC one with it.  You'll
like the colors much better.

To replace the rgb.txt file, do the following as root:

   # cd /usr/lib/X11
   # mv rgb.txt rgb.txt.dec
   # cp mit-rgb-txt rgb.txt
   # ./rgb rgb <rgb.txt

You'll either have to restart the X server or reboot the system to get the
new colors to take effect.


Mike Iglesias
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