Problems with X11 colors

[William Roberts;]

In <1990Dec10.153824.11910 at athena.mit.edu> dmac at athena.mit.edu (David S. 
McCormick) writes:

>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

The other alternative (if you are using the X11 session type, which you must 
be for .X11 to work) is to change /usr/bin/X11/startx so that the line

    serverargs=""

changes to

    serverargs="-screen 0 -depth 8 "

This is harmless on machines which don't support depth 8, and gives you all of 
the other things that startx does (but plain old X doesn't). I tell people 
that they should use the .X11 or .mac32 overrides to add functionality rather 
than completely override the default file.
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