Re: starting 8-bit color depth X server from a script
Re: starting 8-bit color depth X server from a script
- Subject: Re: starting 8-bit color depth X server from a script
- From: Ben Eisenbraun <email@hidden>
- Date: Tue, 2 Feb 2010 10:25:50 -0500
On Mon, Feb 01, 2010 at 07:31:53PM -0500, Brandon Allbery wrote:
> A better solution might be a wrapper which checks the default color
> depth and spawns an "Xnest -bpp 8" if it doesn't match.
Nods, I'd love to use Xnest or Xephyr on an already running X session, but
the 8-bit color maps for both those apps still appear to be broken.
> (I would also suggest yelling at the software developer if there's no
> way to constrain the visual it uses --- except I've been there, and
> some of those vendors don't want to hear about it. *sigh*)
The vendors are mostly professors writing software to solve their own
particular problem and giving away the software for free, and they _really_
don't want to hear about it. If it solves someone else's problem, that's
great, but they don't want to support it.
-ben
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