X11 & Color

[William Roberts;]

In <443 at aplcomm.JHUAPL.EDU> beser at aplcomm.JHUAPL.EDU (Nick Beser) writes:

>beard at ux5.lbl.gov (Patrick C Beard) writes:


>>I have X11R4 for A/UX 2.x and am having difficulty getting it to 
automatically
>>come up in color.  The "Getting Started..." manual suggests a file by the
>>name of .X11 to change the default "X" command to something like:

>>X -screen 0 -depth 8

>>From the console emulator I can type this in and it works, so I have that
>>as my default login and I've aliased X to that, but I would like to know
>>what others are doing about this.

First stop, get the right filename: the best way to do this is to look in 
/mac/lib/sessiontypes, find the one called x11 and do a "strings" on it (you 
could use ResEdit, but my way is quicker). When I do this, I get the result

% strings x11
Macintosh
APPL????
X11 is Apple's adaptation of the industry standard X Window System for A/UX.  
X1
1 is a pure X environment, and no Macintosh compatability is provided.
/usr/bin/X11/startx
.X11
STR#
%

So your choice of ".X11" in your home directorry is correct for the override. 
The other filename, /usr/bin/X11/startx, is the one used if you don't have 
your own override file - if you look at that you'll find it is somewhat more 
complicated than just "X -screen 0 -depth 8"

I changed ours so that it will use colour if colour is possible, but default 
to black and white otherwise: this is done by the simple change shown in the 
following diff.

*** startx      Tue Jun 11 16:59:03 1991
--- startx.orig Tue Jun 11 16:59:35 1991
***************
*** 17,23
  sysclientrc=/usr/lib/X11/xinit/xinitrc
  sysserverrc=/usr/lib/X11/xinit/xserverrc
  clientargs=""
! serverargs="-screen 0 -depth 8 "

  if [ -f $userclientrc ]; then
      clientargs=$userclientrc

--- 17,23 -----
  sysclientrc=/usr/lib/X11/xinit/xinitrc
  sysserverrc=/usr/lib/X11/xinit/xserverrc
  clientargs=""
! serverargs=""

  if [ -f $userclientrc ]; then
      clientargs=$userclientrc
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