[Xquartz-dev] 8bit (256) color

Brandon Allbery allbery at kf8nh.com
Fri Aug 29 07:25:16 PDT 2008


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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