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From: knight@henson.cc.wwu.edu (Matt J. Scott)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: THANK YOU, RE: Help w/ DEC 5000/200 24-bit color etc.
Message-ID: <1991Apr15.173847.29437@henson.cc.wwu.edu>
Date: 15 Apr 91 17:38:47 GMT
Article-I.D.: henson.1991Apr15.173847.29437
Organization: Western Washington University
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I want to thank all of the people that posted and mailed me information

The problem was that the DECstation 5000/200 24-bit color machine was
having problems running any graphical type applications.  The problem
was that many applications were expecting a read/write colormap, and this
was not the case on our machine.  To fix this we changed the default
colormap from TrueColor (read only) to DirectColor (read/write) by 
modifing /ect/ttys, giving Xtm the option -class DirectColor.

So now all the applications that we have been getting off the net, and
purching will run on all our machines, 8-bit and 24-bit alike.
The other lesson that I learned form this is that when I write applications
I will check to see if the default color table is read/write if that is
what I am expecting!