franco@bbn.com (Frank A. Lonigro) (02/23/90)
Hi: I've been trying to get connected to the QAR system for 2 days now and can't seem to get threw, so I'm reporting the bug here. I just upgraded my DECstation3100 from field test 1 to field test 2 of Ultrix 4.0. I installed the manditory patches after that and rebuilt the kernel and all of that sort of stuff. I reboot and then log in. I run a program called "xcmap" which displays my color map of already used up colors, which to my surprise, I find that I have used up 128 colors, when in fact I should only be using up 2 or 3(black, white and/or gray). I then thought of bringing back the previous version of Xcfb, which by the way worked properly before in field test 1, but when I installed and used that instead, I had the same problem. So, if it isn't the Xcfb that is using up the colors, what is???? I'm using the same .Xdefaults file I always used. This is very very bad!!! I now have to backup to a previous release of Ultrix, unless another solution is found very soon. Thanks for listening, -franco Frank A. Lonigro (franco@bbn.com, ...!harvard!bbn!franco) Bolt Beranek and Newman, Inc., 10 Moulton St., Cambridge, Mass. 02138 "e, s, s, s, n, e, e, nw, get chest, se, w, s, d" - Sound familiar???
evans@testmax.ZK3.DEC.COM (Marc Evans Ultrix Q/A) (02/23/90)
This is happening because of the DPS extension being initialized. You have the
option of disabling the automatic initialization of this by setting a resource
in the /.Xdefaults file as shown below:
XSessionManager*initializeDPS: False
Keep in mind that this will make programs which use the DPS extension
potentially
start slower, as well as not necessarily have the environment (such as colors)
that it may desire.
- Marc
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==========================================================================grunwald@foobar.colorado.edu (Dirk Grunwald) (02/24/90)
I don't think that XSessionManager*initializeDPS: False is going to fix it. I've noticed this problem & I'm running X11R4 clients on a UWS2.2 server, none of which initialize the DPS extensions. However, I do use DPS applications - I made xtex use DPS to display \psfig specials in TeX files. At first, I created&destroyed a context for each DPS picture. Now, I reuse a single context per xtex window - this has cut down on the bloat somewhat, but not enough. IMHO, if DEC would like to people to use/develop DPS applications and spread the fame of DEC products, they would make a new Xmfb and Xcfb available for the DECstations via anonymous FTP or netmail. Likewise for the VAXstation if they suffer from this bloat as well. The current situation certainly precludes my using it on a daily basis. Dirk Grunwald -- Univ. of Colorado at Boulder (grunwald@foobar.colorado.edu) (grunwald@boulder.colorado.edu)