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Name | Date | Lines |
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| 601.1 | Hmm | GIDDAY::CAMERON | And there shall come FORTH (Isaiah 11:1) | Mon May 19 1997 01:24 | 16 |
| This will be X resources, see .Xdefaults in / and figure out why the
non-priv user either can't see it or won't use it. Some X applications
also look elsewhere for their resources. See "man X" as a starting
point. Look for lines in resource files that read "xterm*background:"
Consider using "find" to find any .Xdefaults files, and copying them to
the user's directory "~", or find out what environment variable needs
to be set to cause xterm (or indeed most applications) to find it's
defaults elsewhere.
/usr/lib/X11 may not be user-readable.
XAPPLRESDIR is the environment variable used on Digital UNIX, no idea
about Linux.
James
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| 601.2 | curious | OGBON::t2.tunnel.sno.dec.com::gordon | Des Gordon@sno | Tue May 20 1997 13:13 | 9 |
| Curious,
I have also set it up on a Venturis the basic colours on the popup menus are
quite different between the systems the "normal" black on blue X style colouring
on the Venturis and this yellow text on black on the lp. I can't believe these are
the result of settings files as nothing has been customised
Des
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| 601.3 | | NEWVAX::PAVLICEK | Linux: the Truly Open O/S | Tue May 20 1997 16:43 | 20 |
| re: .2
I'd follow .1's advice and look at the .Xdefaults files from BOTH
boxes. Any differences? If not, try altering some of the .Xdefaults
color parameters to see if you can distringuish the letters from the
background.
If nothing works, can you temporarily reconfigure the Metro-X server to
work in standard VGA mode (not S3-specific)? (I dunno, since I've not
used Metro-X yet). What happens to the colors while in VGA mode? Any
difference?
If it looks okay in standard VGA mode, but goofy in S3 mode, there may
be something odd about either the Linux S3 driver or the S3 implementation
on the box.
You need to reduce the number of variables to be sure. I'd start
testing as above and then report back what happens.
-- Russ
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| 601.4 | worked around if not solved | OGBON::desgor.shl.dec.com::gordon | Des Gordon@sno | Tue May 27 1997 04:59 | 13 |
| g'day,
It appears that the .Xdefaults file created for root is different to
the .Xdefaults file created for other users. The simple
background/foreground colours are reversed to other
background/foreground settings and the simple background setting
seems to be failing(this appears to be the real culprit). Reversing
the values on these background setting made the menus visible.
On to the next problem :)
Des
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| 601.5 | | BBQ::WOODWARDC | ...but words can break my heart | Mon Jun 02 1997 04:19 | 10 |
| Sed,
a reason for this may be that 'they' decided it would be a good idea to
differentiate 'root' based X sessions and non-root sessions - and make
it easy to tell just by looking at the colour scheme whether you were
root or not.
Again, not a solution, but a possible rationale ;')
H
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