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RE: ERROR: Unsupported X Windows visual [message #8483 is a reply to message #8411]

Tue, 11 March 1997 00:00

mallozzi
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Registered: August 1994

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> I use idl on a remote machine running DEC OSF 4.0. My local machine is
> a PC running Linux. When I try to open _any_ idl windows (e.g. plot,
> ?), the following error message occurs:
> Unsupported X Windows visual (class: StaticGray, depth: 0).

I ran into a similar problem on my linux machine running at 16 bits
per pixel. What screen depth are you using (try xdpyinfo)? I put
something like the following in the .Xdefaults file:

idlvisual: truecolor

Can't check it exactly right now, as I am at work. Anyway, this allows
me to open windows, although SHADE_SURF crashes IDL with a seg fault,
with the message "Array has a corrupted discriptor" I have talked to
RSI several times about this, but....well it still occurs in the 5.0b5.
Everything seems to work under 8bpp, but I don't think shutting down
my x-server and restarting in 8bpp whenever I want to use IDL is an
acceptable solution...sigh

-bob

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		ERROR: Unsupported X Windows visual By: Juergen Reiss on Fri, 07 March 1997 00:00
		Re: ERROR: Unsupported X Windows visual By: Dr. Scott Smyth on Mon, 17 March 1997 00:00
		RE: ERROR: Unsupported X Windows visual By: mallozzi on Tue, 11 March 1997 00:00

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