Problems with X11 colors
David S. McCormick
dmac at athena.mit.edu
Tue Dec 11 02:38:24 AEST 1990
In article <1990Dec9.191317.26237 at engin.umich.edu>
bombach at caen.engin.umich.edu (Paul Matthew Bombach) writes:
>The X11 user's guide says that putting the following line:
>
> X -screen 0 -depth 8 &
>
>in a .X11 file in the home directory will start X11 with color. My
problem is
>that it does not seem to work. In other words, I am stuck with black and
white.
>Does anyone know how I could fix this? By the way, my screen is at zero
and
>will support a depth of 8.
I had this problem. The remedy IS indeed to set the execute bit with chmod:
in your .X11 file:
X -screen 0 -depth 8
(I didn't seem to need to use the ambersand (&) )
chmod to allow you to execute (-rwx------)
Best-o-luck,
David S. McCormick
MIT-EAPS Geology
dmac at athena.mit.edu
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