[13499] in Athena Bugs
Re: Bug in dash: Un-gracefull recovery over color allocaiton color.
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Tom Krall)
Fri May 12 13:01:33 1995
To: Bill Cattey <wdc@MIT.EDU>
Cc: bug-library@MIT.EDU, bugs@MIT.EDU, tkrall@MIT.EDU
In-Reply-To: Your message of Fri, 12 May 1995 11:26:39 -0400.
<Qjgrsjk00000Q0xn87@mit.edu>
Date: Fri, 12 May 1995 13:01:01 EDT
From: Tom Krall <tkrall@MIT.EDU>
|> I was attempting to view the library menus today remotely from home.
|> For some reason I have not yet figured out, my color display was unable
|> to allocate the two colors that dash wanted: midnightblue and CadetBlue2.
|>
|> The effect: Dash came up with white letters on a white background.
|> NOT READABLE.
|>
|> -wdc
Bill,
You can set the color you wish in your ~/.Xresources file.
In mine I use:
!
Dash*Background: DarkGreen
Dash*Foreground: white
!
It sounds like a problem with your color map, I would
try a combination that works for you.
Tom
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