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- From: mpm@bmerh504bnr.ca (Mike Mogridge)
- Subject: Re: X - HP Vue - Motif - My Applications Resources ?
- Message-ID: <1992Nov05.162802.29814@bmerh85.bnr.ca>
- Sender: mpm@bmerh504 (Mike Mogridge)
- Organization: Bell-Northern Research, Ottawa, Canada
- References: <1992Nov2.162012.8555@netcom.com> <7371448@hpfcso.FC.HP.COM>
- Date: Thu, 05 Nov 92 16:28:02 GMT
- Lines: 38
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- In article <7371448@hpfcso.FC.HP.COM>, stroyan@hpfcso.FC.HP.COM (Mike Stroyan) writes:
- > > >Override it if you (and your customers) feel like it. The colors can be
- > > >yours to control if you set "*useColorObj: false" in your application's
- > > >app defaults file.
- > >
- > > This doesn't work on our HP-UX 8.07 750:
- > > I have tried both "*useColorObj: false" and just "pict*useColorObj:
- > > false" with motifgif and pict - using a global "false" causes motifgif
- > > to core dump with a Bus Error, and setting it just for pict causes
- > > pict to hang when it finds it can only get ~200 colours of the 256.
- > >
- > > Where are these options documented? Do you have to set them then
- > > logout/login so that all clients see the option, not just the new ones?
- >
- > The resource certainly is underdocumented. The only place I have seen
- > it documented was in manuals for the Softbench CASE product. I expect
- > that the Vue implementors didn't anticipate that people would want to
- > override the Vue color scheme.
- >
- > The effect of useColorObj can be seen with the commands
- >
- > xdialog -xrm "*background:blue" -m "well?"
- >
- > xdialog -xrm "*background:blue" -xrm "*useColorObj:false" -m "well?"
-
- When I try the second xdialog command I get a segmentation fault - core dump!!!!
- What is going on? I'm using VUE on a 720 under 8.07.
- Is this related to the fact that when I do an 'xterm -bg blue' I get a window
- with a *red* background?
-
- Mike.
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