jlunny@TWG.COM ("John Lunny") (08/18/89)
this is your basic help request... i have a Sun 3/80 running SunOS 4.0 and i have X11R3 executables. if i do a 'constype' i get 'cg4', but when i fire up xinit everything is in black and white and i have little luck firing up applications in color. i've been in a black and white environment all my life (sob, sob) and i would like to know what simple thing i have to do to get my X server to recognize colors. thanks (i hope) in advance.
bob@tinman.cis.ohio-state.edu (Bob Sutterfield) (08/18/89)
If a 3/80's cg4 is like a 4/110's cg4, then the monochrome (default) "screen" is unix:0.0 and the 8-bit color "screen" is unix:0.1. You point a client (say, another copy of awm) at the color side by specifying 0:1 in DISPLAY or -display. Then, you switch between the monochrome and color worlds in video update time just by sliding the mouse cursor off the sides of the screen. Now you know why we've got a subnetful of clients named after Wizard of Oz characters :-)