On Wed, 7 Nov 2007, Craig Loomis - email@hidden wrote:
[ I just noticed that "most anyone" would not include the poor troglodytes
who must work in 8-bit mode. "xterm -bg red -fg blue" (or any other color)
gives a white-on-white window, except that the mouse cursor is blue-on-red. ]
We have some kind of dept wide liscence from Apple, so I still have not
gotten my hands on the media for 10.5 (it always seems to take too long).
But I tried it on another machine for a brief period of time on a computer
I borrowed for a couple of minutes. It had the X11 that came on the media.
I did /usr/X11/bin/xterm from Terminal.app. I set the prefs to 256 color
mode and quit X11.app and the xterm. Then I did /usr/X11/bin/xterm from
Terminal.app again. xterm was white on white. I did an echo $DISPLAY
redirected to a file and then in the Terminal.app I did xdpyinfo with that
display, it did indeed show PseudoColor. I believe that xterm needs to be
compiled to work correctly in 256 mode so just to make sure I also ran
xlogo and it was white on white. When I tried to resize the xlogo window,
little droppings from the corner remained all over the window.
Before and after everything I used ps and checked the DISPLAY variables to
make sure everything made sense. (Verify that the X server had restarted
and that a new launchd socket was being used.)
I'll file a bug report about this just to get the count up. Ben and
everyone else I greatly appreciate all the hard work. I simply cannot say
thanks enough.
mzs
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