Re: 8-bit color in Tiger X11 and Snow Leopard X11
Re: 8-bit color in Tiger X11 and Snow Leopard X11
- Subject: Re: 8-bit color in Tiger X11 and Snow Leopard X11
- From: Jeremy Huddleston <email@hidden>
- Date: Fri, 07 May 2010 17:13:25 -0700
On May 7, 2010, at 16:38, Philip Dennison wrote:
> On 20100507 16:02, Jeremy Huddleston wrote:
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>> On May 6, 2010, at 12:27, Philip Dennison wrote:
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>>> If X11 is not set to output 256 colors,
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>> Pseudocolor is not very well supported by the X11 community as it is a very outdated and costly way to handle colors. We have limited support in XQuartz, but you must select the 8bit mode.
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>> Most of these applications probably won't even work on modern Xorg DDXs either. You really should update your applications or ask the developers to support TrueColor... They've had well over a decade to do it...
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>> --Jeremy
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> Thanks Jeremy.
>
> Unfortunately neither the software or operating system is supported anymore. I prefer the old software to the current alternative (and already have the licenses), and the SGI platform is so reliable. The computers are at least 12 years old and the Bruker XwinNMR program, was replaced about 5-6 years ago!
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> It is also unfortunate that this was handled so nicely by the old X11. I haven't yet tried installing the Tiger X11 on a Snow Leopard machine - would the instructions for doing this under Leopard still work?
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> Phil.
Are you experiencing problems when you set the X11 color depth to 256 colors in the preferences?
I think the instructions may still be valid. I'm not 100% positive, though. You can also try the package I made a while back:
http://static.macosforge.org/xquartz/downloads/Leopard/X11_Legacy-1.1.4.1.pkg
http://static.macosforge.org/xquartz/downloads/Leopard/X11_Legacy.README
I think there may be a problem with the quartz-wm in that package, but it should work ok if you use Snow Leopard's quartz-wm instead.
This is really not a supported approach, but hopefully it'll help. If you have any problems, let me know, and I'll try to help.
--Jeremy
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