Re: FVWM: Re: Colormap issues

From: Dan Espen <dane_at_mk.telcordia.com>
Date: Thu, 03 Oct 2002 14:02:33 -0400

Olivier Chapuis <olivier.chapuis_at_free.fr> writes:
> On Thu, Oct 03, 2002 at 11:03:27AM +0200, Olivier Chapuis wrote:
> > On Wed, Oct 02, 2002 at 05:41:44PM -0700, Tim Freedom wrote:
> >
> > > And in the "XV Controls" window it notes using "24-bit mode. Using TrueCo
> lor
> > > visual" meaning the solaris Xserver (Xsun) is capable of 24-bit. So I as
> ked
> > > a sys-admin friend and he noted that "xdpyinfo is probably unable to
> > > understand 8+24 mode and is simply returning the first result it sees whe
> n
> > > multiple options are available." So I'm not sure how fvwm determines wha
> t
> > > the X-server is capable of, but its figuring them to be 8-bit on this
> > > machine when they really need to be 24-bit (is it grabbing xdpyinfo's
> > > output ?). Anything I can do to make fvwm resolve to 24-bit short of
> > > restarting the server with that depth setting explicitly (meaning I'd
> > > have to call the powers that be to change the configuration on this
> > > machine - after a million+1 questions) ? What do other window managers
> > > (like CDE) do to resolve this ?
> >
> > If you start fvwm without -visual{Id} it asks the server for the
> > default visual and use it (I do not think that fvwm is broken here; it
> > does not grep xdpyinfo, it uses the X library).
>
> In fact I do not know what we should do with a card with 2 depths
> for a given visual. I found nothing in the X lib (or in the Xevi
> extension) for such a situation. I imagine that there is an X extension
> to deal with this situation and we should use it to choose the desired
> depth.

Why shouldn't the Fvwm command line arg work as advertised?

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