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display depth
- To: "'cygwin-xfree at cygwin dot com'" <cygwin-xfree at cygwin dot com>
- Subject: display depth
- From: Matej Franceskin <matej dot franceskin at ensico dot si>
- Date: Tue, 15 May 2001 16:38:49 +0200
I use the following command to start my X server on win2k:
XWin -from my_address -screen 0 1024x768x32 -fp tcp/fontserver:7000
-engine 4 -query remote_server &
The problem is that I want to run some programs that do not support
visuals with more than 256 colors.
If my screen has 32bit depth than the option -screen 0 1024x768x8 does
nothing. I noticed that the last parameter (screen depth) is irrelevant.
XWin always uses the same depth as the win2k display so If I want to get
8 bit depth I have to change the win2k display setting to 256 colors and
use -engine 1 with XWin and all the colors I get this way are completely
messed up.
The same thing works fine in linux...
Am I doing something wrong, or is this a bug (or feature)?