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Conference unxa::cde

Title:	CDE on Digital UNIXonment - CDE
Notice:	CDE on Digital UNIX - for CDE on VMS, please see Note 1.3
Moderator:	UNXA::SYSTEM

Created:	Tue Nov 23 1993
Last Modified:	Fri Jun 06 1997
Last Successful Update:	Fri Jun 06 1997
Number of topics:	660
Total number of notes:	2674

612.0. "Xserver default value for BlackPixel and WhitePixel" by ALFAXP::RETTERER () Mon Mar 03 1997 14:06

Hi there.

One of my customers is inquiring about the BlackPixel and WhitePixel
color index in the Xserver.

He is running a 3rd party product that displays properly on a NCD Xterminal
that has the default BlackPixel value set to 1 and the WhitePixel set to 0.

Dunix v4.0b - CDE

On his Alphastation 255, the BlackPixel value is 0 and the WhitePixel value is
1.

He wants to change this on the Alphastation so that BlackPixel is 1 and 
WhitePixel is 0.

I had him create the file /etc/dt/config/Xservers, and specify the following:

 :0 Local local@console /usr/bin/X11/X :0 -bp white -wp black

But after restarting CDE it did not honor the change. 

I also tried: 

 :0 Local local@console /usr/bin/X11/X :0 -bp 1 -wp 0

This did not work either.

Is there anyway possible for him to change this?  I advised him that
his 3rd party application probably is in error for keying on these values
but it is falling to deaf ears it seems.

Thanks,

Rick Retterer
Workstation/Graphics Support
Alpharetta, Ga.
DTN-343-0367

T.R	Title	User	Personal Name	Date	Lines
612.1	how about Xconfig?	UNXA::BEUTE	No good deed ever goes unpunished...	`Tue Mar 04 1997 12:59`	13
	>>I had him create the file /etc/dt/config/Xservers, and specify the following: >> >> :0 Local local@console /usr/bin/X11/X :0 -bp white -wp black >> >>But after restarting CDE it did not honor the change. Did you also have the customer create /etc/dt/config/Xconfig, and edit it to point to the new Xservers file? If not, then the change was never really tried. You must edit and change both files...
612.2	/usr/bin/X11/X :0 -vclass0 PseudoColor -bp white -wp black	ALFAXP::RETTERER		`Tue Mar 04 1997 13:39`	24
	No. I did not change the Xconfig file. I didn't think that this was needed. I did verify however, that the Xserver is getting the -bp and -wp parameters passed to it. ps aux \| grep -i /X root 5786 0.0 2.8 11.3M 3.5M ?? 13:25:25 0:03.69 /usr/bin/X11/X :0 -vclass0 PseudoColor -bp white -wp black ... The Xserver appears not to be honoring the -bp and -wp parameters. I can change the BlackPixel to 0 by changing -vclass0 to TrueColor but the WhitePixel value is 65534. Just for grins I tried this on a old ultrix system I have at my disposal and the switches work just the way you would expect it to. Any more help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks, Rick Retterer
612.3		UNXA::BEUTE	No good deed ever goes unpunished...	`Tue Mar 04 1997 19:43`	7
	>>>The Xserver appears not to be honoring the -bp and -wp parameters. The Xserver folks rarely monitor this conference, try posting over in BULOVA::DECWINDOWS.