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From: gennari@HARLIE.UCI.EDU
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Subject: Color X and Sun 3/260
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Date: Sat, 4-Jul-87 19:08:29 EDT
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Posted: Sat Jul  4 19:08:29 1987
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	Hi. A recent acquisition here, we have a Sun 3/260 with a color
  monitor. We also have the Sun graphics accelerator and buffer board. 
  When the system was first set up, X worked very well, and I quickly
  came to enjoy setting up different windows in different colors. However,
  we noticed that our accelerator was not doing anything - it turns out we
  had forgotten to set up the device driver for this board. However, once
  we installed the driver, X displayed a peculiar bug:

	With a color window, one is supposed to specify two colors, fg and 
  bg, or foreground (text) and background. Currently, any window except for
  the default blue and white window, comes with three colors: fg and bg and
  the text always comes in the default blue. "fg" now seems to specify the
  area immediately around the text, although its behavoir doesn't seem to be
  completely predictable. I have not found any way to modify the third
  color, and I don't think it's supposed to be there.
  
	At any rate, "fg and "bg" are clearly not working, and although 
  the problem isn't crippling, it is annoying. Has anyone out there
  ever heard of this problem? (Does anyone else run X with the
  accelerator board?) Am I forgetting some type of switch? I would
  appreciate any suggestions or help that may be available.


John Gennari
<gennari@ROME.UCI.EDU>