RE: Pseudo Colors on Solaris

[<James dot Bassett at txu dot com>]

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From: cygwin-xfree-owner@cygwin.com
[mailto:cygwin-xfree-owner@cygwin.com] On Behalf Of Brian Willis
Sent: Thursday, September 22, 2005 8:51 AM
To: cygwin-xfree@cygwin.com
Subject: Re: Pseudo Colors on Solaris

I had this very same problem with HP.  The way I got around it was to
start a X session in fullscreen mode with the windowmanager of your
choice in 8 bit color.  Not a sexy solution, but it worked.  For us it's
only for a few apps.

Brian Willis
OHD/NWS NOAA

James.Bassett@txu.com wrote:
> Greetings
> 
> A little more info.  I can very the color numbers in rgb.txt and the 
> colors in my xterm windows will change.  :) The colors in my solaris 
> window do not change.  :(  I used an app that came with AutoIT to 
> verify colors in the windows.  When I slide the mouse over something 
> red in a xterm window the app showed me the color number.  I can 
> change the '255 0 0' in rgb.txt to '255 40 40' and the app will show 
> '255 40 40'.  But in the solaris window, '255 0 0' always reads '255 0

> 0' no mater what I change in rgb.txt.
> Am I shooting in the right (or left) direction or do xwindow calls 
> from an outside unix box not use color maps or settings on the
localhost?
> Thanks for any direction or kind words.
> Jb
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Hi, thanks for the reply!
I had thought about and tried that.  When I do that I get really weird
colors. (white is greenish yellow, red is blue-ish, ...)  I also tried
from windows setting XWIN to run in 256 colors from the 'compatibility'
tab in properties. This worked also plus it let me use multiwindow but
the colors were still messed up but not quite as bad.  (red was red 255
0 0 but white was also red 255 0 0).  When I do not do ether, I can sort
of see the image but it is very very dark.
I know it can be done because Exceed does it.  I am currently looking
for more info on how to use the -cc and -co.  Maybe I can come up with
some kind of custom mapping.  The Sun box runs an app called blink_task
to flash some of the colors so I know it is trying to change about 70 of
the 256 colors to something custom.  
The more I dig, the deeper I get.
Thanks
Jb


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