My desktop machine at home has two video cards and two monitors. The second monitor is old and cheap, and it has a flaky connection on the blue pin which is now pretty toast. To try to hack around this, I set up the second card to run in 8bpp mode with a default StaticGray X visual. This works great for things like xterm, which obligingly display things in shades of, uh, yellow.
For a lot of things I like to do text editing with xemacs; having an Emacs on the second display feels like a win. But if I start XEmacs it's too clever for me: it detects that the display happens to have a PseudoColor visual available too, and decides to start up using this visual and a private colormap. The result is the usual colormap flickering, made worse by my window manager really failing to deal properly. What I really want is a black-and-white XEmacs, for values of "white" made up by only the red and green signals on the monitor, and without using a private colormap. It seems easy enough to force it to use a private colormap, but I don't want that! Any hints? (Things that come to mind: figure out how to make XEmacs DTRT; figure out how to make XFree86 not report visuals besides StaticGray. Would using GrayScale, which has dynamically allocated "colors", work? Is the documentation [notably XF86Config-4(5x) and s3virge(4x)] correct in that the gray visuals are only available at 4 and 8 bpp?) -- David Maze [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://people.debian.org/~dmaze/ "Theoretical politics is interesting. Politicking should be illegal." -- Abra Mitchell -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
