Re: Monochrome XFIG

["Pedro Sanchez" <psanchez@nortelnetworks.com>]

Thank you for your detailed message.

Unfortunately this didn't solve my problem. I have all the files as you
describe but still xfig shows up in monochrome. By the way, this is
happenning in a fresh Potato install done about a month ago which I'm
upgrading to the latest every weekend. Xfig has never shown its colors.

Any other suggestions?

-- 
Pedro

Riku Saikkonen wrote:
> 
> "Pedro Sanchez" <psanchez@nortelnetworks.com> writes:
> >Why is xfig monochrome-only for menus? I can add colors to my drawings
> 
> You should have, among others, the following lines in the file
> /etc/X11/Xresources/xfree86-common (or /etc/X11/Xresources on an older
> system):
> ! load color-specific resources for clients that have them
> #ifdef COLOR
> *customization: -color
> #endif
> 
> This resource causes XFig to look for its resource settings from
> /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/app-defaults/Fig-color instead of
> /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/app-defaults/Fig. You should have both of those
> files, and Fig-color should have "#include "Fig"" at the start.
> 
> Also, to get X to load these settings, you should _not_ have a
> .xinitrc file in your home directory. Place your customisation in
> ~/.xsession instead.
> 
> (If you really need to use ~/.xinitrc for some reason, you should
> either execute /etc/X11/Xsession from it, or at least execute the
> parts of that file that have to do with $sysresources.)
> 
> Hope this helps...
> 
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