Xterm and .Xresources

[jabr at blu.org (John Abreau)]

On Thu, 2 Sep 1999, John Chambers,,,781-647-1813 wrote:

> The problem is that I don't know how to tell it to  stop  asking  for
> color  #D3B5B5  and ask for one that is in use.  If I could learn the
> resource names that gv is using, then the fact that I'm on a  machine
> with 8-bit color wouldn't matter. I could just assign these resources
> to the same set of colors that my xterms are using.

>From the gv man page:

       -monochrome, -grayscale, -color
              Sets the color palette to be used.

>From "strings /usr/X11R6/bin/gv | grep -i color":

    GHOSTVIEW_COLORS
    Color
    color
    [-monochrome] [-grayscale] [-color]
       # Color environment:
         [-monochrome] [-grayscale] [-color]
    Color
    -color
    GV*viewClip.borderColor:
    GV*page.borderColor:
    GV*Scrollbar.pointerColorBackground:
    GV*Scrollbar.pointerColor:
    GV*beNiceToColormap:

This is from gv 3.5.8 on a Redhat 5.2 system.

Do you get the same problem even when you specify -monochrome or
 -grayscale?

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