Re: Xdmcp or other remote from Mac To AIX
Re: Xdmcp or other remote from Mac To AIX
- Subject: Re: Xdmcp or other remote from Mac To AIX
- From: Marc Journeux <email@hidden>
- Date: Thu, 12 Jun 2008 02:04:07 -0700
ok, I will test with Xephyr -screen 1024x768x8/8 (the colormap problem happens with emacs as well).
if the XInputExtension is there, should I add the lib to some path so it is recognized ?
thanks
Marc
On Wednesday, June 11, 2008, at 03:01PM, "Brandon Allbery" <email@hidden> wrote:
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>On 2008 Jun 11, at 5:07, Marc Journeux wrote:
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>> I will try to setup all the fonts from my AIX box on the Mac X11
>> server, but I have no idea for the color problem ("Bad colormap
>> parameter" error) and the XInputExtension problem.
>
>The colormap issue usually means some program was written assuming an
>old 8-bit PseudoColor visual (which is to say, needs a specific kind
>of color mapping) while the actual display is 24/32-bit TrueColor; or
>vice versa. (Indeed, I see TrueColor and DirectColor visuals but none
>of the old color-mapped visuals.) Xephyr may be your friend here, as
>it exports a PseudoColor visual (or at least does with -screen
>1024x768x8/8 which was my quick test).
>
>XInputExtension is usually a warning you can ignore; Xlib checks for
>it and warns if it's not there, but most programs don't care much.
>That said, X11.app *has* XInputExtension, so I'm not sure what's going
>on here.
>
>--
>brandon s. allbery [solaris,freebsd,perl,pugs,haskell] email@hidden
>system administrator [openafs,heimdal,too many hats] email@hidden
>electrical and computer engineering, carnegie mellon university KF8NH
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