X11 for A/UX

[Richard Michael Todd]

anderson at csli.Stanford.EDU (Steve Anderson) writes:

Before I start, I should mention that I have the MIT X11R4 release, not
the "official" Apple X Release.  

>(a) How can I get X11 to work when my login shell is other than sh or
>csh (or ksh, I suppose)? I use /usr/local/bin/bash, which works fine
>with A/UX. When I try to start an X11 session, it starts up the
>server, and then crashes into console mode with a message
>Xterm: Error 18 errno 22: bad argument
>This happens at the point where it's trying to start the first xterm
>(the one that serves as the console, not mentioned in .x11start). When
>I change my shell to csh, everything starts up fine. Is there
>someplace other than /etc/shells where a shell has to be registered
>for X11 to be able to use it in the console window?

Not that I know of. Hmm.  I'd suspect that what you have is a subtle 
incompatibility with bash.  I use tcsh from within xterm, no problem.

>(b) How can I get X11 to recognize that I have a color monitor? It
>seems to think I have a 1-bit screen, although everything I can think
>of to set treats my Apple color monitor (with either the IIci builtin
>video or a SuperMac ColorCard/24) as 8 bits. I thought the X11 server
>was auto-configuring.

It does automatically recognize the cards, but it by default starts a 
monochrome X session unless you specify otherwise on the command line.  
Try putting the options '-screen 0 -depth 8' on the command line that
invokes XmacII, the X server.  (BTW, if you've got multiple display cards,
you can do "XmacII -screen 0 -depth 8 -screen 1 -depth 8" and have X using
both displays at once.  I doubt that you'll be able to use your 24-bit card
in 24-bit mode, though; the stock MIT X11R4 source doesn't support 24-bit
displays, and I doubt the Apple one does either, as there's a whole lot of
code in there that really really wants the display to be either 1 or 8 bits.)

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