[Xquartz-dev] 2.4.0_beta4 and beta5

[Jeremy Huddleston]

On Jul 21, 2009, at 14:40, Brian Bender wrote:

> On Tue, Jul 21, 2009 at 5:04 PM, Jeremy Huddleston
> jeremyhu-at-apple.com
> |Xquartz-dev/personal|<...> wrote:
>>
>> That worked in earlier versions?  It shouldn't've ... that's been a  
>> known
>> bug since 2.0.  If you want 8bit visuals, you need to run the  
>> server in
>> 8bit-only mode.  Sorry.
>
> Heh, OK. It definitely worked at 16bit with a 24bit desktop (I wasn't
> actually trying to use 8bit, so I'm not certain that that worked), but
> if that's a known limitation or just "how it works", I'm good with
> that. :)

Well it's not how it should work, but it's a minor annoyance bug  
that's somewhere in the queue, but not near the top due to the fact  
that only a handful of software would actually benefit from the fix...  
still, it would be nice to get this fixed eventually...