Problems with X11 colors

[David S. McCormick]

In article <1990Dec9.191317.26237 at engin.umich.edu> 
bombach at caen.engin.umich.edu (Paul Matthew Bombach) writes:
>The X11 user's guide says that putting the following line:
>
>       X -screen 0 -depth 8 &
>
>in a .X11 file in the home directory will start X11 with color.  My 
problem is
>that it does not seem to work.  In other words, I am stuck with black and 
white.
>Does anyone know how I could fix this?  By the way, my screen is at zero 
and 
>will support a depth of 8.

I had this problem. The remedy IS indeed to set the execute bit with chmod:

in your .X11 file:
X -screen 0 -depth 8

(I didn't seem to need to use the ambersand (&) )

chmod to allow you to execute (-rwx------)

Best-o-luck,

David S. McCormick
MIT-EAPS Geology
dmac at athena.mit.edu