Re: 10.5 X11 8-bit display problems
Re: 10.5 X11 8-bit display problems
- Subject: Re: 10.5 X11 8-bit display problems
- From: Ben Byer <email@hidden>
- Date: Thu, 08 Nov 2007 15:18:45 -0800
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
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