Michael Lake wrote:
> I have an Xray diffraction program which runs on an SGI being exported
> to a display on a Sun machine running Linux. The applications does not
> get enough colours if using Gnome /Enlightenment on the Linux box but I
> have got it to a usable state by using fvwm as the window manager (no
> Gnome) and reducing the colours that fvwm uses. There is still one last
> graphics screen that the aplication puts up which comes out black
> instead of a gray colour - hard to see black atoms /bonds on a black
> background.
>
> Now some applications like Netscape hog all the colours and can be
> installed with a private colour map (netscape --install-private). This
> app does not have that option
> but can I write a wrapper program which does hog all the colours? That
> way when I call up my wrapper program its child, the diffraction
> program, will have access to all colours.
1st thanks to Cameron who suggested some things with regards to a
wrapper program.
Fortunately my problem is solved. The company who produced teXsan
suggested that I try 'setenv XTERMINAL' on the SGI box before I start
the program to let the program know that its not dealing with an SGI
display.
This solved the problem. The graphics screen now shows with the correct
white background instead of black. I've now set this in the /etc/profile
for users.
I had been at my wits end fiddling with .Xdefaults, rgb.txt and editres.
Learn't lots though.
Bye from Mike
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Michael Lake
University of Technology, Sydney
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URL: http://www.science.uts.edu.au/~mikel
Linux enthusiast, active caver and interested in anything technical.
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