X display visual

[Fred L. Drake, Jr.]

Ivan Van Laningham writes:
 > What say the Tkinter experts?

  Tk (properly) used the visual configured to be the default visual.
This is (I think) a poor standard configuration from Sun, but it is
the "stock" configuration.  The proper solution is to start the X
server with flags to specify that the default visual should be 24
bits.
  (Streeeetcch..... digging up arcane Sun X lore....)
  The way I do this is to change a line in the file
/usr/dt/config/Xservers; change the line:

   :0   Local local_uid at console root /usr/openwin/bin/Xsun :0 -nobanner

to something like:

   :0   Local local_uid at console root /usr/openwin/bin/Xsun :0 -nobanner -dev /dev/fbs/ffb0 defdepth 24

  Make sure he checks the -dev parameter with the installed hardware;
this is for a Creator framebuffer.


  -Fred

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Fred L. Drake, Jr.	     <fdrake at acm.org>
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