deford@linus.UUCP (Kevin Deford) (04/20/88)
I just brought up the basic version of X.V11R2 on our sun 3/160's running
OS 3.5. I am running X on a 3/75 monachrome display, with the 160 as a NFS
mount. After moving my .Xdefaults file somewhere, I was able to run xinit
and have it come up with a window in the default location. However, there
was no text in that window. I could run things within the window and they
ran ok - things like xclock, gnu etc. But xterm never came up with any text.
I made sure to use the -p4 option to the font compiler, and changed the
destination of the files. I noticed a previous message about a similar
problem, but on a color display. That suggestion failed.
Anybody else out there have a similar problem?
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Mitre Corporation, Bedford, MA 01730guido@cwi.nl (Guido van Rossum) (04/21/88)
Did you install the color database? I had exactly the same problem (all clients work except xterm) and it turned out my color database was broken. This was on a monochrome VaxStation. The color database is installed after everything else by the top-level Makefile; it is easy to forget this if you are doing things piecemeal by hand (as I had to do due to disk space limitations). If this is the case it may actually be worth a bug report, since everything else appears to use a reasonable default... Guido van Rossum, Centre for Mathematics and Computer Science (CWI), Amsterdam guido@piring.cwi.nl or mcvax!piring!guido or guido%piring.cwi.nl@uunet.uu.net PS: the color database is /usr/lib/X11/rgb.???; I believe it is installed from util/rgb.