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From: abaxter@pikes.Colorado.EDU (Alan Baxter)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: Re: Sun4 4.0.3 and color resetting
Summary: clear_colormap restores the Sun console colormap.
Keywords: resetting color on SS1 and 4/330's
Message-ID: <3086@pikes.Colorado.EDU>
Date: 27 Dec 89 21:08:27 GMT
References: <1299@nih-csl.UUCP>
Reply-To: abaxter@pikes.Colorado.EDU (Alan Baxter)
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Organization: University of Colorado, Denver
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In article <1299@nih-csl.UUCP> jip@nih-csl.UUCP (john powell) writes:
>On our SUN4 sparcstations and 4/330's (running 4.0.3), when we terminate X11
>the color of the characters on the screen is some very light, pale color
>(hardly readable).  On our 386i machines, we see this color for a split second
>and then the normal black color.  What is the secret to restoring the color on
>the SUN4's when X is terminated?

Try the command, clear_colormap.  I've found that it works either at
the command line or as the last entry in my .xinitrc file.

Alan Baxter  abaxter@pikes.colorado.edu