vrm@cathedral.cerc.wvu.wvnet.edu (Vasile R. Montan) (06/27/90)
Has anyone had any success in getting FrameMaker to display on an SGI machine? I am running it on a Sun 4. I was getting the error: maker: using /usr01/frame/.makerinit maker: Cannot allocate colors. Aborting. However, someone suggested that I use adjacent colors for the background and foreground and using '-fg black -bg red' I would get past this error. There are still some problems in that the text on buttons does not show up, the tops of capital letters are cut of, and when I quit, all my X clients are killed. If anyone has had similar problems and knows a way around them, could you pass along your solution. Also if you never had a problem displaying FrameMaker on an SGI, could you send me a description of what you do. Thanks, -- Vasile
jim@baroque.Stanford.EDU (James Helman) (06/28/90)
> However, someone suggested that I use adjacent colors for the > background and foreground and using '-fg black -bg red' I would get > past this error. Many X clients do not behave properly with static colormaps. Under IRIX 3.2's X server, the default visual was static rather then pseudo like most other common color X servers. Frame 1.3 can't deal with that, so you should start Xsgi with the -envm or -pseudo option to provide a different default visual, then you can use a white background. Under 3.3, the X server is started by default with the -envm option. But it's pointless. Like many old clients created back when X servers weren't too picky about illegal values, Frame 1.3 only works with the X server's "bug compatibility mode" turned on, e.g. xset bc. Under IRIX 3.3, Xsgi no longer supports this mode, so it's best to just wait until Frame fixes their problems. I'm hoping Frame 2.0X will be on better terms with Xsgi. Jim Helman Department of Applied Physics 6 Trillium Lane Stanford University San Carlos, CA 94070 (jim@thrush.stanford.edu) (415) 723-9127