Re: [FLASH-USERS] 1. why gray scale only on my optiquest with redhat9.0 idl6.0se? 2. is setting a fixed IP for each networked computer first thing to use an mpirun cluster?

Hello Victor,

On Sat, 2004-10-23 at 07:28, Victor Shum wrote:
> Dear Flash users,
>
> Dunno if you've come across my 1st question:
> I can see only gray scale display on my redhat9.0
> using idl while at the college computer (a 14" legacy
> monitor
> running redhat8.0 and idl6.0se automatically sees
> color images!)
it has nothing to do with RH, the reason is your X settings.
In your ~/.Xdefaults file (if you don't have one, create it) put the
following lines,

idl.colors: -10
idl.gr_visual: TrueColor
idl.gr_depth: 24
idl.retain: 2

This should help. Do "xrdb -merge ~/.Xdefaults" or reboot X for the
settings to make an effect.

If it still doesn't work after this, make idl startup file, say,
~/.idl_startup, with the following lines,

window, /free, /pixmap, colors=-10
wdelete, !d.window
device, decomposed=0, retain=2

set the environmental variable "IDL_STARTUP" to point to this file (the
best place is in you ".cshrc" file or ".bash", depending on your default
shell)

- Georgi

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Georgi Pavlovski <gbp@phys.soton.ac.uk>
University of Southampton