How do I get rid of those white monitors?

[Malcolm Williamson]

Hi, Luc
Regarding the second problem first: You really _don't_ want to run more 
than one monitor at a time on the same graphics monitor. Due to the 
nature of the XDRIVER and Xwindows, they will be trying to reserve colors 
for themselves and they will always be problematic. Instead, use d.frame 
to break a single monitor up into multiple frames, each of which can be 
displayed to individually.

Your first problem may be caused by having other graphics-intensive 
windows open when you start your GRASS monitor; try limiting your windows 
to only text-based windows. Also, make sure that you are running in 
colormode fixed (d.colormode fixed; d.erase). Good luck!
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Malcolm D. Williamson - GIS Specialist           E-mail: malcolm at cast.uark.edu
Center for Advanced Spatial Technologies      Telephone: (501) 575-6159
Ozark Rm. 12                                        Fax: (501) 575-5218 
University of Arkansas              
Fayetteville, AR 72701

On Mon, 22 Jul 1996, 
Luc Boerboom wrote:

> Greetings!
> 
> I have just installed GRASS4.1 binaries on a Linux system and
> encountered some problems with colors and monitors while doing some
> exercises with spearfish:
> 
> 1) I strarted a monitor and used d.display, which seems to work fine,
> but when I put my cursor on the monitor, the rest of the screen turns
> red and orange. It DOES wake you up, but I prefer coffee. How do I
> change this? Color related man pages did not give me a clue.
> 
> 2) Furthermore, I started 3 monitors and first I reduced their size. The
> monitors turned from black to white. I tried to display elevation.dem
> with d.rast map=elevation.dem on the white monitors and nothing happens.
> If I don't reduce a monitr first, and immediately display elevation.dem,
> a white field appears on the black background, where elevation.dem is
> supposed to show up. Strange thing is that I used to be able to display
> elevation.dem. What did I do so that I can not display it anymore or
> what are sources of my problem, and how do I solve the problem?
> 
> I appreciate your help for getting me on the GRASS roads, after these
> first hours of muddling around.
> 
> Luc.
> !!!!!!!!!!
> PS: I HAD TWO SEND THIS MESSAGE TWICE. IN THE MEANTIME I FOUND OUT THAT MY
> SECOND PROBLEM SEEMS TO BE SOLVED IF I RUN FROM THE C SHELL, NOT FROM BASH.
> IS THIS CORRECT AND HOW DO I RUN FROM BASH?
>