rivero@dev8a.mdcbbs.com (04/11/91)
In article <9104100234.AA16796@zia.aoc.nrao.edu>, cflatter@zia.aoc.nrao.EDU (Chris Flatters) writes: > Matt Scott writes: >> So to try and track down the problem I did some digging and testing >> and discovered that the 24-bit machines do support a DirectColor visual >> (read/writeable), however, it is NOT the default visual! Does >> XAllocColorCells only try the default visual? > > XAllocColorCells will only try the colormap you specify as its second > argument. If you want to use a non-default visual you must create a > private colormap using XCreateColormap with a pointer to the visual > you want to use. > >> How can we change the default visual from a read only to the >> read/write visual? > > Some X servers will allow you to change the default visual at start-up. > I don't know if DEC's is one of them: check the man page. > Dec 5000's allow you to change the default visual on startup. Michael