| Re: idl, color and exceed xserver? [message #29096 is a reply to message #29052] |
Thu, 31 January 2002 11:20   |
Rick Towler
Messages: 821
Registered: August 1998
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I have had many of these same problems with Exceed. We now use WebTermX by
Powerlan USA, Inc. which after working out the details works great for us.
It can run the server at a bit depth independent of your windows desktop
depth which makes managing color issue easier. Since we're part of a big
.edu domain we run an win32 ssh client for a terminal and allow the X-server
to handle everything else.
All in all it works quite well. If you decide to try it out, feel free to
contact me. I can pass along the details of our configuration since we
don't follow their usual setup.
-Rick
"Nigel Wade" <nmw@ion.le.ac.uk> wrote in message
news:a35q8g$kuf5$1@rook.le.ac.uk...
> Michael A. Miller wrote:
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>> 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?
>>
>> Mike
>
> We use eXceed under W2K and I'm far from happy with it. You've presumably
> got around their wonderful requirement of needing Administrator privilege
> to run Exceed.
> But that's another story...
>
> What screen colour depth do you have your PC display set to, and what are
> the errors you are getting in relation to colour maps? IDL requires either
> an 8 bit PsuedoColor or 24 bit TrueColor X visual (although I've heard
> rumours that 5.5 supports 16 bit colour). What does the command xdpyinfo
> tell you about the X display?
>
> --
> -----------------------------------------------------------
> Nigel Wade, System Administrator, Space Plasma Physics Group,
> University of Leicester, Leicester, LE1 7RH, UK
> E-mail : nmw@ion.le.ac.uk
> Phone : +44 (0)116 2523568, Fax : +44 (0)116 2523555
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