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From: fouts@teehee.dallas.sgi.com (Christopher L. Fouts)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: Re: Silicon Graphics X11R4 server and default ColorMap
Keywords: Silicon Graphics, Colormap
Message-ID: <1991Jun13.163537.24368@odin.corp.sgi.com>
Date: 13 Jun 91 16:35:37 GMT
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Organization: Silicon Graphics, Inc. (Dallas)
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In article <598@censun1.UUCP>, tl@censun1.UUCP (SSUID Tin Li) writes:
|> With the X11R4 server from Silicon Graphics, we are able to allocate
|> only sixteen colors using the default Colormap.  Does anyone have
|> similar problem?  Is it a known problem?  Is there a easy work
|> around?

You can specify the colormap behavior when you start up Xsgi.  Check out
the man page for Xsgi and notice the descriptions for the -pseudo, -static,
-gl, and -envm.

If you start Xsgi automatically in you user.ps file with startXsgi, you can
specify the argument to Xsgi in $HOME/.xSGINeWS.  See the man page for
xstart.

You won't see this problem under 4.0.

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Chris Fouts				email: fouts@dallas.sgi.com
Systems Engineer			vmail: 8714
SGI - Dallas				phone: 214-788-4122

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