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Re: idl, color and exceed xserver? [message #29046 is a reply to message #28978]

Tue, 29 January 2002 07:11

Liam E. Gumley
Messages: 378
Registered: January 2000

Senior Member

"Michael A. Miller" wrote:
> I'm using exceed to connect to unix machines from a windows 2000
> machine. There is a particular application that I can use when I
> log in at the unix (HP-US in this case) console. When I connect
> from a windows 2000 machine and use exceed and hwm (exceed's
> window manager) to display on my screen, I often get errors
> related to color maps. Is there anyone out there in IDL land who
> has used exceed and can suggest some exceed configuration options
> that might help idl tolerate it better?

I use Exceed 6.2 routinely on my Windows NT PC to run IDL sessions on an
SGI. However I do *not* use "HWM". I just open a shell on the SGI, e.g.

% setenv DISPLAY mypc:0
% xterm -fn 9x15 -fg gray -bg navy &

My PC desktop is configured for "True Color", and I use the following
IDL startup file on the SGI:

if !version.os_family eq 'unix' then device, true_color=24
window, /free, /pixmap, colors=-10
wdelete, !d.window
device, decomposed=0, retain=2, set_character_size=[10, 12]
device, get_visual_depth=depth
print, 'Display depth: ', depth
print, 'Color table size: ', !d.table_size

I don't have any problems with this setup. The only change I made to the
Exceed configuration was to allow the window focus to change with
pointer motion.

Cheers,
Liam.
Practical IDL Programming
http://www.gumley.com/

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		idl, color and exceed xserver? By: mmiller3 on Fri, 25 January 2002 10:58
		Re: idl, color and exceed xserver? By: Liam E. Gumley on Tue, 29 January 2002 07:11
		Re: idl, color and exceed xserver? By: Nigel Wade on Tue, 29 January 2002 01:33
		Re: idl, color and exceed xserver? By: Rick Towler on Thu, 31 January 2002 11:20
		Re: idl, color and exceed xserver? By: Jaco van Gorkom on Thu, 31 January 2002 02:44
		Re: idl, color and exceed xserver? By: Jonathan Joseph on Wed, 30 January 2002 11:42

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