Strange Font Color Problem

[Peter_17]

All,

I have an HP-UX 11 box that has a strange font color problem. When I bring up a terminal or texteditor, the font color in each window is black text on grey background. As soon as I bring up the Style Manager (simply clicking on the icon on the front panel), the text changes from black to white (normal) within the windows.

Everything within the Style Manager is set to default.

Any and all help appreciated!

Thanks,

Pete

[Alex Glennie]

Your back again ;)

I've seen this problem before when a user has customised the cde screenlock logo for one of their own design ...... so what changes to the default CDE
settings/env have you been doing ? (other than the dtlogin matte and message) ? been changing the colours ?

I suspect this is the link .... I've also noticed that setting most colors for applications resolve the problem but does not do much for CDE's desktop colour options.

My feeling is a contention for colours and/or colormap issues with the CDE manager ... without knowing what exactly you've done ....

I'm off now UK time = time to go home .... back tomorrow .... since i have a vested interest and a system demonstrating the problem I'll see what I can find out. You maybe wise to log an official call with HP though .... as I suspect it may be reproduceable given the right image/color scheme ...

[Kenneth Platz · Accepted solution]

Peter,

Believe it or not, I've seen this problem before, and there is a fairly straightforward solution to this.

This can occur if you make customizations to resource files under /etc/dt/app-defaults/C which have the line #include "Dt" in them. For one reason or another, the applications are unable to load the "Dt" file unless it actually exists in the /etc/dt/app-defaults/C directory.

You can resolve this by copying /usr/dt/app-defaults/C/Dt to /etc/dt/app-defaults/C.

I hope this helps.

[Alex Glennie]

ps

your customisations ..... are you putting them in /etc/dt/config/C/Xresources ..... if yes what happens if you make them in /usr/..../Xresources ?

I seem to remember it helped somewhat when i tried this approach ..... no explanation as yet.

[Peter_17]

Thanks to those who responded!

Kenneth, you 'da man! That was exactly the problem. I made the suggested change and all is working normally.

Thanks & HAGO,

Pete