Problems with X11 colors

[Tim Deeves]

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.

One thing you might check... be sure that the .X11 file has the execute
bit set.

Tim Deeves
Computing Services
Tulane University, New Orleans, LA