Patrick O'Donnell wrote: > >So much stuff breaks with a DirectColor visual that no-one ever uses > >one. > > By this, I presume you mean that many clients fail to support > DirectColor correctly, (or fail to match visuals correctly) so they > break? Or are you referring to server support for DirectColor failing > often?
Clients. Either they print a "not supported" error message, or just assume that the default colourmap has full-scale monotonic ramps and treat it as TrueColor. If you're really lucky, they'll allocate a private colourmap, set linear ramps, then treat it as TrueColor. The number of programs which break with a DirectColor visual suggests that they're essentially a theoretical concept which doesn't occur in practice. -- Glynn Clements <[email protected]> _______________________________________________ xorg mailing list [email protected] http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/xorg
