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RE: display depth
- To: "Matej Franceskin" <matej dot franceskin at ensico dot si>, <cygwin-xfree at cygwin dot com>
- Subject: RE: display depth
- From: "Harold Hunt" <huntharo at msu dot edu>
- Date: Tue, 15 May 2001 12:21:27 -0400
Matej,
8 bits per pixel is not supported, yet.
I will be working on 8 bpp shortly, but it requires some palette management
so it will take some time to code.
The bit depth command line parameter is only used when running in a
DirectDraw fullscreen mode, otherwise we have to use the bit depth that
Windows is currently using.
I will also be updating the User's Guide shortly to reflect when the bpp
parameter is used and when it is ignored.
Thank you for your interest in the project,
Harold
> -----Original Message-----
> From: cygwin-xfree-owner@sources.redhat.com
> [mailto:cygwin-xfree-owner@sources.redhat.com]On Behalf Of Matej
> Franceskin
> Sent: Tuesday, May 15, 2001 10:39 AM
> To: 'cygwin-xfree@cygwin.com'
> Subject: display depth
>
>
> I use the following command to start my X server on win2k:
>
> XWin -from my_address -screen 0 1024x768x32 -fp tcp/fontserver:7000
> -engine 4 -query remote_server &
>
> The problem is that I want to run some programs that do not support
> visuals with more than 256 colors.
> If my screen has 32bit depth than the option -screen 0 1024x768x8 does
> nothing. I noticed that the last parameter (screen depth) is irrelevant.
> XWin always uses the same depth as the win2k display so If I want to get
> 8 bit depth I have to change the win2k display setting to 256 colors and
> use -engine 1 with XWin and all the colors I get this way are completely
> messed up.
>
> The same thing works fine in linux...
>
> Am I doing something wrong, or is this a bug (or feature)?
>
>
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