Re: 256-color mode in X11 2.1.3
Re: 256-color mode in X11 2.1.3
- Subject: Re: 256-color mode in X11 2.1.3
- From: Ben Eisenbraun <email@hidden>
- Date: Fri, 1 Feb 2008 15:41:54 -0500
On Fri, Feb 01, 2008 at 12:58:26PM -0700, Johnny Eugene Croy wrote:
>We are running into a problem with 256-color mode in the newly
>updated X11 2.1.3. We have a program that requires X11 to be
>running in 256-color mode, but when we change the display (via X11--
>>preferences) from "from display" to "256 colors", upon launch of
>the program (via terminal), we only get a blank screen (white). Is
>there any fix to this problem?
Use Xephyr. From an email that Ben Byer sent to the list a while back:
> Fake 8-bit color mode:
> $ Xephyr -ac -screen 800x600x8 :9 &
> $ DISPLAY=:9 twm&
> $ DISPLAY=:9 xterm&
-ben
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Ben Eisenbraun
Structural Biology Grid
http://sbgrid.org/
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