How to get color windows in MacX

[Jakob Nielsen]

I would like to thank Spencer W. Thomas and David C. Doherty for providing the
following answer:

To get the color window in MacX activated, set the DISPLAY variable on the host
system to xx.xx.xx.xx:0.2 (where xx.xx.xx.xx is your IP address). The important
addition of ".2" to the display address specifies that the Unix machine is to
connect to MacX's rootless color windows.

[Jakob Nielsen]

When I use MacX to connect to a host running an X program, I always get windows
with monochrome contents. I would like to get windows with color contents, and
MacX seems to support color. I just cannot figure out how to switch the color
on. Admittedly, I am not much of a Unix person (which is why I use MacX for a
few non-Mac applications I need to use), but there must be some way the X
server (MacX) tells the X client (the program running on the mainframe) that it
has a color screen and can accept color windows. Please help.

Jakob Nielsen, Bellcore, nie...@bellcore.com

[Kevin J. Hegg]

You typically specify the command line option -fg and -bg for foreground color
and background color respectively. In this example,

/usr/bin/X11/xclock -bg red -fg yellow -hd navy -display "(display"

I specify that the program xclock should run with a red background and yellow
foreground (and navy blue hands). Almost all X applications support -bg and
-fg. I hope this is what you were asking about.

Kevin J. Hegg Internet: kev...@cmi.com
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[James Wishart]

In article <1991Oct17....@walter.bellcore.com>, nie...@bellcore.com (Jakob Nielsen) writes:
>

The default display window, "nodename:0.0", is black and white.
Try setting the display to "nodename:0.2" or "nodename:0.3".
If you've already done that, I'm stumped.

Jim Wishart