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From: jjo@calmasd.GE.COM (Jay Olson)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: Xqdss colors
Message-ID: <2504@calmasd.GE.COM>
Date: Wed, 28-Oct-87 20:13:41 EST
Article-I.D.: calmasd.2504
Posted: Wed Oct 28 20:13:41 1987
Date-Received: Tue, 3-Nov-87 07:21:37 EST
Reply-To: jjo@calmasd.UUCP (Jay Olson)
Organization: GE Calma, San Diego
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Excuse me for asking a potentially novice question, but I am somewhat
confused about the correct way to specify colors to Xqdss (the VaxStation
II/GPX server). In X10, there was a -0 option to specify the value of
BlackPixel, and a -1 option to specify the value of WhitePixel. In X11,
these are changed to -bp and -wp respectively.

In X10, the server was started with

	X 0 -0 000000 -1 FFFFFF

so one would surmise that the X11 server should be started with

	Xqdss -bp 000000 -wp FFFFFF

(the documentation says that a screen number argument is not accepted, so
I left it out). If I do this, then start an xterm window, I get a white
on white xterm (i.e. white characters on a white background). This is very
difficult to use.

On the other hand, if I start the server with

	Xqdss -bp FFFFFF -wp 000000

(i.e. reversing sense of black and white) and start an xterm window, I
get white characters on a black background.

Has anyone seen this behavior before? Is it expected and/or documented?

I'm running on a VaxStation II/GPX running Ultrix 2.0 with the stock MIT
X11.1 distribution. I haven't applied any of the posted patches yet, though
I didn't see any that seemed relevant to this problem.

Thanks in advance for any help.

				Jay Olson
				a consultant working at
				GE Calma
				San Diego, CA
				jjo@calmasd.GE.COM
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