pan@prowest.propress.com (03/28/91)
I have a DECstation-5000/CX. In running the trivial Motif demos like cedit, I
noticed that the colors displayed don't very well match my own perception of
what that colorname represents. Now, I know that color representation is a
very personal thing, but I would still expect the colors on the DECstation to
be more true, if not perfect.
Just to make sure it wasn't me, I tried running cedit on the Tektronix XP27
that I use, and there the colors looked *much* better. Now, I'm not shocked
that Tek did a good job with colors, but I am somewhat displeased with the
quality of the colors on the DECstation.
Is this a problem unique to my box? Has anyone else noticed that the colors on
the DS-5000/CX are rather poor?
Opionions? Comments? DEC?
P
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_________________________________________________________________________iglesias@draco.acs.uci.edu (Mike Iglesias) (03/29/91)
In article <8664.27f0d7a5@prowest.propress.com> pan@prowest.propress.com writes: >I have a DECstation-5000/CX. In running the trivial Motif demos like cedit, I >noticed that the colors displayed don't very well match my own perception of >what that colorname represents. Now, I know that color representation is a >very personal thing, but I would still expect the colors on the DECstation to >be more true, if not perfect. Get a copy of the MIT rgb.txt file and replace the DEC one with it. You'll like the colors much better. To replace the rgb.txt file, do the following as root: # cd /usr/lib/X11 # mv rgb.txt rgb.txt.dec # cp mit-rgb-txt rgb.txt # ./rgb rgb <rgb.txt You'll either have to restart the X server or reboot the system to get the new colors to take effect. Mike Iglesias University of California, Irvine Internet: iglesias@draco.acs.uci.edu BITNET: iglesias@uci uucp: ...!ucbvax!ucivax!iglesias