On Nov 8, 2007, at 2:42 AM, Neil Ranson wrote:
Dear All,
Apologies if this has been reported/discussed before. I did look....
It appears that on a test intel imac system, the X11 8-bit visual
is profoundly broken. If colors are set to 256 in X11 preferences,
or launched explicitly from the command line, an xterm window is
correctly drawn, but the contents of that window are white on
white. The xterm still accepts input, but if applications are
launched from the (invisible) command line, the resulting windows
are also blank white.
This is a deal breaker for us, and I imagine other scientific
users of OS X, as several of our key applications (in electron
microscopy and image processing) are only available under 8-bit
visuals.
If I had to guess, I'd say we're not setting the colormap correctly;
please file a bug at bugreport.apple.com. As a workaround, the
Tiger X11 should still work, and you might able to use the Xnest
binary I posted (other users will have to help you there, I haven't
had a chance to play with it beyond building it)
--
Ben Byer
CoreOS / BSD Technology Group, XDarwin maintainer
