[Xquartz-dev] 8bit (256) color

Jeremy Huddleston jeremyhu at apple.com
Fri Aug 29 11:35:03 PDT 2008


pixman is supposed to handle the translation from 8bit pixel values +  
mappings -> TrueColor

On Aug 29, 2008, at 07:25, Brandon Allbery wrote:

> On 2008 Aug 28, at 22:18, Jeremy Huddleston wrote:
>> So this issue has been mentioned a few times on this list, and I've  
>> never really gotten a good test case to show off the problem.  I'm  
>> heading to XDS next week, and I'd like to show off this bug to  
>> other X11 developers and maybe work with them to get towards a  
>> solution.
>
> I'm wondering how it's supposed to work at all, given that all the  
> visuals are 24-bit TrueColor.  An application requesting 8-bit  
> PseudoColor should fail to find a compatible visual.
>
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