Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!apple!sun-barr!lll-winken!arisia!janssen@holmes From: janssen@holmes (Bill Janssen) Newsgroups: comp.windows.x Subject: Re: Changing the default visual for Xt toolkit widgets Message-ID: <3276@arisia.Xerox.COM> Date: 29 Sep 89 02:08:12 GMT References: <8909271536.AA22775@quito.local> Sender: news@arisia.Xerox.COM Reply-To: janssen@holmes (Bill Janssen) Organization: PARC.Xerox.COM Lines: 18 In-reply-to: willson@pdaeng.UUCP (Stephen Willson) In article <8909271536.AA22775@quito.local>, willson@pdaeng (Stephen Willson) writes: >We have just received version 1.0 of OpenLook which we are running on Sun-4s >and Sun OS 4.0.3. The default visual for the X11/News server is static >color. There is another visual which is pseudo color but it is not the >default visual. The pseudo-color visual can be made the default visual by setting the environment variable USE_MIT_VISUALS (to some value, say "t") before starting the server. The problem with this is that NeWS programs think that the default visual is static. This is not generally too bad, but the cursor seems to be solid black. This is documented in the man page for xnews. Bill -- Bill Janssen janssen.pa@xerox.com (415) 494-4763 Xerox Palo Alto Research Center 3333 Coyote Hill Road, Palo Alto, California 94304