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Re: depth in pixmap
- From: Alexander Gottwald <Alexander dot Gottwald at s1999 dot tu-chemnitz dot de>
- To: "'cygwin-xfree at cygwin dot com'" <cygwin-xfree at cygwin dot com>
- Date: Fri, 15 Nov 2002 18:36:46 +0100 (MET)
- Subject: Re: depth in pixmap
- Reply-to: cygwin-xfree at cygwin dot com
Thielemans, Kris wrote:
> Hi,
>
> do I gather correctly from the FAQ that it is impossible to open an depth 8
> window and display and 8 depth ZPixmap on a 24 bit depth screen?
>
> It seems that the depth settings are largerly ignored (aside from size
> issues). That is, I don't seem to get an error message at all when I ask for
> 8bit depth, but then it does not seem to work properly.
>
>
> Is this a general restrictiion of X servers, or only of XFree on Windows?
> Oh, while I'm taking some bandwith here. Can anybody point me to some online
> documentation on how to put up a bitmap in 24bit mode? (I'm constructing my
> bitmap myself, and do that in 8bit mode with ZPixmap that essentially
> indexes in a colormap, but I get the impression that my ZPixmap has to be
> 24bit per pixel now. What format is it in? Is the colormap ignored?)
maybe the -fullscreen option helps. For some -engine modes it changes the
displaydepth for the requested depth. If you don't use fullscreen, the depth
setting is ignored.
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ago
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