knight@henson.cc.wwu.edu (Matt J. Scott) (04/16/91)
I want to thank all of the people that posted and mailed me information The problem was that the DECstation 5000/200 24-bit color machine was having problems running any graphical type applications. The problem was that many applications were expecting a read/write colormap, and this was not the case on our machine. To fix this we changed the default colormap from TrueColor (read only) to DirectColor (read/write) by modifing /ect/ttys, giving Xtm the option -class DirectColor. So now all the applications that we have been getting off the net, and purching will run on all our machines, 8-bit and 24-bit alike. The other lesson that I learned form this is that when I write applications I will check to see if the default color table is read/write if that is what I am expecting!