[COLUG] [OT] Older Solaris Programs crash under newer xservers

[William (Bill) Triest]

This is a tad OT, but google hasn't helped, and the solution may result 
in more linux goodness, so I thought I'd give it a shot.

We have a lab that runs some software off of an older solaris box.

If we ssh into it and try to run the software from RHEL 4, xwin32 7.1, 
or xceed 8.0 (the latter two being xserver for windows the OSU has had 
site licensed) then it works initially, but when trying to display a 
graph crashes.  For xwin32 we can run it in compatability mode with 256 
color, and it will work, but the colors are so bad the graph is 
unusable. If we try from an older version of xceed, 7.1, then it will 
work and the colors are acceptable.  Exceed 7.1 is no longer supported, 
so we're unable to buy more licenses.  If I can get it working from 
linux, then they will install a couple Linux desktops.  Anyone have any 
ideas on how to get it to work?  (links are greatly appreciated)

Thanks,
Bill