[comp.windows.news] Colors and NeWS

jdn@europa.Eng.Sun.COM (Jeff Nisewanger) (06/28/90)

In article <8aUcIJ600iU_I3jUte@andrew.cmu.edu> fk03+@andrew.cmu.edu (Frank Eugene Kietzke) writes:
>I love my boss.  I just manage to get the R4 color map installed for X11
>in my sparc station and my boss tells me to switch to NeWS.  Fine, it is
>a nice server, but the color map is derived from R2.  This looks REAL
>bad on my monitor.  Has anybody succeded in upgrading the color map to
>R4 RGB values and names.  I tried to translate my rgb.txt into a
>colors.ps file, but it came out 1220 entries and from the color
>behavior, I think that I overran storage somewhere since the server
>still complains that it doesn't know about some of the named colors and
>others come out REALLY weird.  Is there another file that I should be
>twiddling or am I just stuck with the R2 colors?
>
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>|Frank Kietzke               | That was the "stun" setting, this is not.|
>|Carnegie-Mellon University  |   Lt. Commander Data,                    |
>|Data Communications         |   STNG, The Ensigns of Command.          |
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>| I can hardly speak for myself, let alone for CMU Data Communications  |
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	When it comes out, the OpenWindows 2.0 server will have a color
database derived from the one in R4.


	Jeff
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